And you think Dion has problems with supposed grumblings behind his back? Check out John Tory’s, who has party members openly questioning him on the hustings:
Bill Murdoch, the member for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, became the first Tory MPP to say he could not support the controversial promise… “I didn’t realize how sensitive and divisive the issue would be when it was first introduced,” Murdoch said today.. “Should this come before the legislature, as it stands today, with the majority of my riding opposed, I will vote against it.”
And of course, Tory didn’t help matters by openly dismissing Murdoch as a live wire:
“When you look up maverick in the dictionary, you find his picture there in colour,” Tory told reporters.
Regardless of your stance on the funding issue, it isn’t good for public consumption openly bickering on the election trail.
A few days ago I was in Prince Edward County for a family reunion. A couple of the chaps there had been in school with John Tory. They agreed he was socially inept, arrogant and had a bit of tin ear politically. All those traits seen to be on display in his impolitic put-down of his colleague from Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound on the school funding issue.