Ontario Liberal leadership candidate wants to attract conservatives to take on Ford
One candidate during the first Ontario Liberal leadership debate Monday night, Eric Lombardi, signaled that he would widen the Ontario Liberal political tent as leader to attract conservative and NDP
During the first Ontario Liberal Leadership race, one candidate stood out for signalling that under his leadership the party would avoid ostracizing conservative voters and widen the party’s politics to give a voice to disenfranchised conservative and NDP voters.
Eric Lombardi, a former technology strategist and management consultant, has seized the imagination of many conservative-leaning Ontarians online. On the debate stage Monday night, he made the case for a centrist party that he hopes could take a quarter of the voting support from Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government.
A total of five candidates, including Lee Fairclough, Navdeep Bains, Stephanie Bowman and Dylan Marando, showed up for the debate moderated by Tina Yazdani from The Trillium,
