A sign of a good leader is a person who can connect with other people. A good leader is one who takes the time to listen to other people. A good leader is a person who stands behind their own people, and does not throw them under the bus. A sign of a good leader is not Tim Hudak!
An incident took place last year involving former PC, MPP of Thornhill, Peter Shurman. The incident involved Mr. Shurman claiming living expenses, which every MPP is entitled to claim if he or she lives 50km away from Queens Park. While Mr. Shurman was the elected MPP for Thornhill, he did not live in the riding and was therefore entitled to claim the living expense.
When the story broke in the media this created a firestorm for Hudak, as he was going after the government for all the money they've wasted over the years. Mr. Hudak claims that he knew nothing about Mr. Shurman claiming the living expenses, and had asked him to pay the money back. Mr. Shurman claims that he spoke with Mr. Hudak and advised him that he was in fact claiming the living expense months before the story broke. I know this boils down to a he said, he said type of situation.
As a result of this being revealed, Mr. Hudak removed Mr. Shurman as Finance Critic for the PC party, a position that Mr. Shurman held for several years, and was extremely good at.
Mr. Shurman felt that Mr. Hudak throw him under the bus to save his own political butt, and therefore resigned as of December 31st, 2013. Recently Mr. Shurman was on a local radio station giving his own personal assessment of this election, and he said he felt that Ontario is headed for another Liberal Minority Government. It should be noted that Mr. Shurman is now a private citizen who gets paid to give his assessment on political issues.
Needless to say this started a storm on social media and calls for Mr. Shurman to take back his assessment, and also to refrain from talking about the election. The storm I'm talking about is mainly from the PC party and the campaign team of Tim Hudak. All of this could have been avoided had Mr. Hudak been honest about his meeting with Mr. Shurman, and stood beside one of his loyal and most trusted MPP's. Instead Mr. Hudak did what any power hungry person would do, and that was to throw Mr. Shurman under the bus.
Is this the type of person we want leading the Province? Is this the type of leader the people of Ontario deserve? Mr. Hudak will do and say anything to get elected, and he knows that if he does not win this election his days as leader of the PC Party are numbered.
Leadership is about team work, and that my friends is something that Mr. Hudak lacks.
