WATCH: NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is happy to see that PM Stephen Harper is “burying the hatchet” with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.
TORONTO – Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne are scheduled to meet Monday evening.
The two have not met face-to-face for over a year and Wynne has pointed that out numerous times since, going so far as to say she hoped the prime minister didn’t have a “vendetta” against the province.
She also called out the prime minister in December, saying it had been “too long a time between meetings of the prime minister and the premier of Canada’s largest province.”
Harper was in Toronto shortly thereafter but didn’t meet with the premier. Instead, he met with newly elected Mayor John Tory.
The two leaders are meeting at 6:15 p.m. Monday at an undisclosed location, according to her daily itinerary.
In Ottawa, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair panned Harper’s decision, suggesting he doesn’t understand Canada operates as a federation.
“He’s never attended a single meeting of the Council of the Federation,” Mulcair said, referring to the premiers’ gathering. “I am happy that he’s…decided to bury the hatchet because he was taking a very vitriolic view of the premier of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province.”
It’s not clear what they will speak about but Wynne has been calling on the federal government for increased transit funding, hikes to the Canada Pension Plan as well as increased funding to Ontario’s Ring of Fire.
During the June election, Wynne campaigned on building transit and her platform at the time relied on increased federal funding.
– With files from The Canadian Press
- What is a halal mortgage? How interest-free home financing works in Canada
- Ontario doctors offer solutions to help address shortage of family physicians
- Capital gains changes are ‘really fair,’ Freeland says, as doctors cry foul
- Budget 2024 failed to spark ‘political reboot’ for Liberals, polling suggests
Comments