Paul Wells in Conversation: Kathleen Wynne

The Ontario premier talks infrastructure, health and finances

<p>Ontario Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne speaks to supporters after winning the Ontario election in Toronto on Thursday June 12, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn</p>

Ontario Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne speaks to supporters after winning the Ontario election in Toronto on Thursday June 12, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Kathleen Wynne ’s clout among her colleagues has increased considerably in only a year.

All it took was for Ontario’s premier to win a surprise majority election victory for her Liberals in June’s provincial election. Now she has four years to advance her agenda: infrastructure spending, designing a health-care system for an aging population, and getting Ontario’s fiscal house in order.

She described these challenges to Maclean’s and discussed her budding partnership with her newly elected Quebec counterpart Philippe Couillard.

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