Partisan politics have fallen to the wayside as politicians of all levels and stripes work together to fight the spread of COVID-19, Peterborough’s MPP says. “We’ll get through this together as a community, no question about it,” MPP Dave Smith says.
Smith says he and MP Maryam Monsef spoke Wednesday night. They weren’t talking policy or politics, he says, but were trying to figure out what’s needed to make sure the region succeeds during the COVID-19 pandemic. “What we all need to recognize is that there are no partisan lines with this disease.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re Conservative, you’re Green, you’re NDP, you’re Liberal, whether you don’t like politics or not,” Smith says. “COVID-19 can affect anyone.” The PC MPP was back in