Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli was selected as Interim PC Leader by the caucus on Friday.

We took our microphones to Oak Street to gather your thoughts.

Most people we talked too see it as a good thing, but others not so much.

“It’s like a kid’s school playground, ‘well, he did this, he did this’, tell me what your party is going to do for me and I’ll vote for that,” one man said.

“I’m certainly hoping we’ll get more provincial attention, at the very least,” another person said.

“I think it’s always good when someone from here is representing issues that northerners are faced with,” was another response.

“The last time a Conservative government was in power they dismantled and almost destroyed social services spending, they cut welfare, they cut ODSP, so as a party, I’m not interested in voting for them,” said another person.

The PC Party has announced a leadership race will be held before the June provincial election, to decide on a permanent party leader.

Fedeli has said he will seek that position.

 

Photo: Ontario PC party interim leader Vic Fedeli is congratulated after a caucus meeting at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Friday, January 26, 2018. Fedeli has been named interim leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives after Patrick Brown’s resignation in the face of sexual misconduct allegations. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette