By David Topping

Andrea Horwath is the new leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. In her speech earlier today, Horwath—aside from suggesting the most depressing party motto ever: “you can knock us down, ignore us, write our political obituaries, but we are the people who will keep on going”—told the convention crowd that “we can make this province a better, fairer place where the average working woman gets the child care she needs and McGuinty gets the pink slip he deserves.” So, yes, there is one lay-off that the NDP would be totally on board with.