Eric Hoskins Running For Ontario Liberal Leadership?

Looks like provincial cabinet minister Eric Hoskins is resigning his cabinet post to run for the Ontario Liberal leadership and to become insta-premier at least for a little while.

I posited in a previous post that Hoskins was a good dark horse candidate for the Liberal leadership, because his backstory as the co-founder of the charity War Child Canada and relatively short period as an MPP (September 2009) could make him a Messiah pick for a desperate Liberal base that is staring down defeat with a more conventional candidate. Hoskins is older than I thought at 51, but certainly looks younger albeit in a Joel Osteen type way.

Note this is not in any way an endorsement of Hoskins, merely an attempt at political prediction.

McGuinty Resigns, Prorogues Parliament, Eric Hoskins Next Premier?

Dalton McGuinty is apparently resigning as premier of Ontario and proroguing parliament so the Liberals can have a leadership conference. I'm not sure how long such a proroguing can last, but I can't think the opposition will be particularly happy about it, especially will all the Oakville power plant stuff going on. Plus they would rather just have an election with the Liberals in disarray.

I'll guess that the Liberals will pick Eric Hoskins as their next leader, mainly because his association with Doctors without Borders makes him fairly squeaky clean compared to the rest of the party's MPPs.

Exciting times coming up though.