Anthony Henderson

@NightShiftMD Mitch is an incredible hockey talent. How he handles playing against a real NHL team like the AVs will be the acid test…9 years against eastern conference real contenders should have given him some insights. Maybe, maybe not.

Marner has not yet played a single playoff game in 2026 against an elite defensive team.

@Mikeggibbs This wasn’t a nomination process. It was a poorly orchestrated shit show, tainted by “saving the party” from someone who could beat Doug Ford. Incompetence? Or worse.

Um seriously? Don't. Run. If you can't handle a nomination campaign without dishonouring yourself as a sore loser, you cannot be Premier of Ontario. After Doug Ford voters will be dramatically upping their standards for leadership and this doesn't cut it.

@DhillonHariGTA Of course Nate would have a significant number of votes from locals. They weren’t all in on the fix…

OLP is hell bent upon digging the hole deeper. Sad!

@Cherniak ALL of the OLP exec who condoned this by not controlling the nomination voting need to resign. If the “winning” candidate and his campaign people are implicated then they need to be banned from the OLP. Quite fair and simple. Ontarians need a functional OLP. You’re not it.

The article by Jonathan Scott gives me pause. Firstly, read it and enjoy it. It is wonderful because it hits some nails right on the head. Secondly, ask yourself, as I am, whether you are helping the cause as he describes it. The problem in politics is that no matter how pure your motives might be, you cannot allow those attacking to be unanswered. If you do not respond to public accusations and mud flinging, then the one making the accusations tends to win the media war and you (or those you are defending) will still be covered in mud. I have been posting a lot online about how I think Nate’s accusations are wrong, unfair, exaggerated and misleading. That is largely because I believe the meeting last Saturday was not much different than other meetings. Nate accepted the process before the vote and would have continued to accept it if he won. His various allegations sound really bad when not answered, but that does not mean he is right. When he started attacking and claiming to be clean as a whistle, I felt it was necessary to respond. In that process, I know I have upset some people who liked me, but also liked Nate. But if I did not speak up as a person who was on the scene, who else was doing it? I do not think it was wrong to respond, but Jonathan convinces me that it is important to be clear: Nate’s motivations and claims to purity are wrong, but that does not mean the process needs to stay the way it is. Nate makes some valid points along with some wrong accusations, but those valid points do not invalidate the meeting. We do need renewal; it just needs to be led by somebody other than Nate. All political parties in Canada have work to do on nominations. There is no denying that. The time to have that conversation, though, is not immediately following a controversial meeting with the losing candidate leading the discussion. I have lost a nomination before. I know how it feels. I was in no position at the time to be objective, clear headed or fair. Frankly, it took me ten years to seriously dip my foot back into politics and it still bothers me when I think about it. I can never undo what happened and it will be a permanent scar. The difference is that I knew enough to know that and mostly stayed quiet instead of attacking. Ontario Liberals still have six months to go in this leadership contest. Renewal and fixing many of the problems in our party will be part of that conversation. I look forward to joining it constructively and supporting a candidate who has some great ideas, but also understands that the brand has to come before his own ambitions. So, yes, I do think I am helping the cause. Of course I am biased in that assessment. But so is everybody when they look inward. The key is to know that, and keep doing your best (that includes @J_Scott_ ). Do not give up or wait for other people to solve the problems that you see. Unless you are emotionally distraught and unable to think clearly. #onpoli

@HenriAGS The old guard of the OLP has horribly failed Ontarians with their abysmal leadership choices, to note DelDuca and Crombie, and Bains is the same crap, different pile. It is incomprehensible that gifted a proven winner with large provincial appeal they kick him in the teeth.

The answer is run again. Riding or no riding. Bonnie Crombie was party leader and she didn't have a riding Del Duca, Crombie, Bains... those are Conservatives in red drag. If I wanted Cons, I'd vote for Cons I want a Liberal leading the Ontario Liberals or the NDP gets my vote

@DhillonHariGTA Save the party…power corrupts-absolute power corrupts absolutely. Nate terrifies them.

Ontario Liberals need to ask: the characters who orchestrated this fiasco in SSW have controlled OLP over the party 10 years, installed 2 leaders. Results are known. Yet, they want to save the party. From themselves? From whom? For whom? Ontarians support Libs. Libls rebuff that

@shayanthinks Care to explain? Who is more capable and why?

@HenriAGS Mr Bains solemnly said in 2019 that he would not run in another election, citing “family.” I think he should honour that commitment,

Former Rogers Communications exec Navdeep Bains is likely to become OLP leader if Nate doesn't run again The same Rogers that fired Tina Yazdani on Doug Ford's orders for asking too many questions It's Nate's decision to run again or not. But if he doesn't, my vote goes ONDP

@Cherniak @l_stone It’s people like you who will make hard core Liberals vote NDP… We’ve had enough of this manipulation. “Save the party” my foot.

@l_stone Correction "Nate Erskine-Smith claims the Liberals can't even run a nomination".

NEW: Speaking to the Globe briefly at QP, Premier Ford said of Scarborough Southwest: "It's amazing how the Prime Minister endorsed him, and it still didn't put him over the finish line...The Liberals can't even run a nomination and they want to run the government?" #onpoli

@CanadasLeafs Is Sheldon Keefe available??

I think the knee-jerk reaction to the Berube firing is to hire an “establishment” coach like Cassidy. I’d like to see someone young or fresh. Some new ideas, someone with fresh ideas and focused on what it take to win, speed and skill.

@TheresaLubowitz What about the papers handed out showing the candidates who to put in places 1 and 2? What about phone/video calls “helping” voters while voting? What about allowing Amazon addresses as legit ID? What “community” did some of these voters represent?

Nate is right that we need change in the party. We're terrible at mentorship and passing the torch. Where he's wrong is calling out local voters who didn't back his candidacy. They chose who they felt represented them as a community, which was their right as members.

@Cherniak @BeachLoverOnt I find “saving the party” from the one man who has the skills, charisma and appeal to young voters to take down Doug Ford upsetting. So does every grassroots, non-interest group oriented Liberal I’ve spoken with. The exec of the OLP should all resign in disgrace in my opinion.

It’s not up to me to make that decision. I’m not working, but engaging in a political discussion. As a volunteer for close to 30 years, I find what Nate is doing upsetting. I lost my own nomination and I wasn’t happy about it, but I dealt with it like a mature adult and did nothing to hurt the winner (until she switched parties).

I want to consider one of Nate’s allegations directly. “Among the large number of temporary residents who voted, many could not initially state their address when asked and defaulted to documentation.” 1) When you ask a person who does not speak English what their address is, you should not be surprised if they hesitate and point to their ID. 2) I personally saw many cases where a person did not understand what they were being asked and we had to call over a translator. 3) Just by making the allegation, he is admitting that the person had ID with the right address on it! 4) Unless I missed it, Nate never objected to temporary residents voting prior to the meeting and I expect he signed them up as well. If this line were coming from a Conservative, we would be calling it a dog whistle. #onpoli

@Cherniak Give it a rest Jason…your heroes got caught “saving the party” Looks good on them.

@shayanthinks @supriyadwivedi Sure are a lot of Nate haters on X all of a sudden. And those who were a party to vote rigging, condoning irregularities, allowing unqualified voters should be blackballed from further involvement..permanently.

The cope from Nate and his boosters is tough to watch and I don't think will get us any closer to having Ford out of office. Nate claims to be absolutely sure that “irregularities” caused his loss—so sure, in fact, that he says he won’t run in a revote once those issues are addressed. How anyone finds this persuasive is puzzling. By all means, conduct the investigation. I suspect it will produce little evidence of decisive wrongdoing, at which point he’ll almost certainly continue alleging fraud.

yesterday Fraser said he had full confidence in how things were run in SSW someone should ask him if he thinks Amazon orders and foreign passports used as ID to vote inspires the kind of confidence he was referring to yesterday

@DrEleanore1 @JohnFraserOS @LFairclo @tylerwatt Utter BS engineered by the party stalwarts who have run it into the ground. I foresee a lot of NDP tidings if this stands.

My feed shows I am historically a Liberal Party supporter provincially and federally. Saturday's shitshow ( and that is generous) has made me question the "integrity " ( both structurally and ethically ) of the provincial Liberal Party. @JohnFraserOS @LFairclo @tylerwatt

@shayanthinks @supriyadwivedi I don’t think you understand Ontario… Bay St, ethnic interest groups, tainted voting processes are not well received. Nate, on the other hand will do well province wide, less a few corrupt GTA ridings, and can beat Ford, which is the goal.

@TDotResident Go get ‘em Nate! “Save the party” from the tired, same as Doug Ford, Crombie bunch and other nefarious activities. Toronto doesn’t own the OLP.

A party leading in the polls without a leader - and the ousted leader’s campaign team seems to have meddled in this riding solely to “save the party” from the person who finished a close 2nd to that former leader. Just a total sh*tshow.

@GradyTripp00 @ColinDMello @OntLiberal They don’t want the old boy’s club with links to developers, Bay St and Dougie’s friends put in jeopardy. NES would upset the apple carts. Hope he prevails. If not, I foresee a Marit Stiles win as there are a lot of non-Toronto ridings in play and a lot of pissed off voters.

@ColinDMello The @OntLiberal’s would likely win the next election in a landslide with Erksine-Smith at the helm, so it’s really remarkable to watch them do their utmost to make sure that never happens.

In this video, Nate Erskine Smith raises questions about the voting process, suggesting there were irregularities including people who had “lost driver’s licenses or just moved to to area” Erskine Smith says it was “unreal” what happened during the vote. #onpoli

@Cherniak So you want to give Ford another easy majority? There are a lot of winnable seats o/s of TO, but it will take a leader who resonates w/grassroots Ontarians, not more of the same recycled OLP exec favourites, a leader who commits to fixing health/ed/social programs in a hurry.

Now that Nate Erskine-Smith’s* plan to win a seat in Scarborough Southwest and use it as a base to win the leadership has backfired, what happens next? This came on the heels of MPP Lee Fairclough officially entering the race Friday while Navdeep Bains said goodbye to Rogers. Meanwhile, my preferred candidate, MPP Rob Cerjanec, holds the Ford government to account and continues to build a strong team. The outlines of the race seem to be shaping up. When Nate announced his SSW plans, my immediate reaction was that leadership candidates should not be allowed to run in the nomination. I quickly backed down to say they should choose not to run. Nate should have taken my unsolicited advice. He has a lot of loyal, smart and idealistic supporters who will stick with him no matter what. However, he had a lot of other supporters who did not want him to contest the nomination and will now look for other options. If Nate stays in, I think he is likely to be a spoiler who puts somebody over the top to win on a final ballot. If he does not, I hope he shows himself to be a good sport and put the party first. I am still unsure how Nav will change the race. There is no doubt that he is well liked and a strong organizer. The addition of business experience to his political resume will help him. I think Nav would make a good premier and I would be happy to run as a candidate under his leadership. That said, he does not have a seat in the legislature and Rogers is not exactly the most popular company. I cannot help thinking about why Steven Del Duca won the OLP leadership. Most people liked him, he was a strong minister and he was a great organizer. Does anybody else see similarities? As I have written before, I believe that the Ontario Liberals need to pick a leader with a seat in the legislature. Otherwise, we will be trying the same plan a third time after it failed twice. We should not be picking a leader based on how much we as Liberals like them. The general public will never get to know them the way that we do - particularly if they do not have the advantage of going toe to toe with the PCs at Queen’s Park. Lee Fairclough beat a PC incumbent in Etobicoke. She is clearly a smart person with a good résumé and would succeed as premier. I spoke to her a few times when we were candidates together and I like her personally. If she wins, I would also be happy to run again under her leadership. What I want to learn is how Lee comes across as a political communicator. I also want to see how she takes advice and what sorts of decisions she makes leading a campaign. Launching the day before the SSW nomination was not ideal. Party leaders need to be able to organize, raise money, convince Liberals and then the public before they get a chance to govern. I saved the best for last. Rob Cerjanec has leadership experience in government as chief of staff for Deputy Mayor Anna Bailão. He has experience in education with the Durham District School Board. He has experience in business running his own PR consultancy. He has experience in politics with decades of Liberal volunteerism. Rob has shown his political communication abilities going after Ford on ticket gouging, Niagara Region, regional chair appointments generally and the Gordie Howe International Bridge. He is also leading on the issue of artificial intelligence, even ahead of the Ford government. I have high confidence in his abilities to win an election and lead a government. As I wrote above, we have yet to see how Nav will shake up this race. We also have yet to see how Liberals will respond when Rob launches his campaign. The third variable is whether Nate stays in the race. With OLP surging in the polls, maybe we even get another surprise candidate. For now, the only thing we know for sure is that it’s all up in the air. #onpoli *Note: Nate said I should disclose that I’ve represented a client on appeal since Jan who was sued by Nate. I had my opinions before that, but fair is fair.

@Mikeggibbs Until the old boys’ club in the OLP gets turfed, don’t plan on winning an election. They haven’t put forth a credible leadership candidate and will continue to destroy the non-Bay St/nn Toronto Liberal base, who will likely vote NDP in the next election.

Nathan has 3 big strikes against his suitability for leadership: 1. Lost a nomination race. 2. Sore loser. 3. Complained about being left of cabinet by Mark Carney. Those are 3 huge red flags that tell you Nathan is not ready to be leader nor premier. He should spare the party and himself the agony of rejecting him yet again. #onpoli