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The next provincial election is still two years away, but a bitter Ontario rivalry is already underway — on Indian soil.
The high stakes contest pits Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne versus Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown, both crisscrossing India this month on competing trips. But India’s stunning vistas are merely a Bollywood-style backdrop for a more ambitious gambit — not just winning over Indians on the subcontinent, but winning the votes of Indo-Canadians back home in Ontario.
Wynne pushes off later this month with a 73-person delegation that would typically generate politically useful photo-ops with Indian dignitaries. That’s still the plan, but the premier has been pre-empted by Brown’s juggernaut.
The opposition upstart has upstaged her with his wild ride across India, starting with a picture-perfect elephant ride, and culminating with the father of all photo-ops — a meeting with India’s wildly popular prime minister, Narendra Modi.
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How India became Ontario’s political battleground: Cohn | Toronto Star
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The next provincial election is still two years away, but a bitter Ontario rivalry is already underway — on Indian soil.
The high stakes contest pits Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne versus Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown, both crisscrossing India this month on competing trips. But India’s stunning vistas are merely a Bollywood-style backdrop for a more ambitious gambit — not just winning over Indians on the subcontinent, but winning the votes of Indo-Canadians back home in Ontario.
Wynne pushes off later this month with a 73-person delegation that would typically generate politically useful photo-ops with Indian dignitaries. That’s still the plan, but the premier has been pre-empted by Brown’s juggernaut.
The opposition upstart has upstaged her with his wild ride across India, starting with a picture-perfect elephant ride, and culminating with the father of all photo-ops — a meeting with India’s wildly popular prime minister, Narendra Modi.
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How India became Ontario’s political battleground: Cohn | Toronto Star