Ontario NDP Leader Howard Hampton announced June 14th that he would step down as the party's leader in March 2009. Speaking to delegates at a party meeting in Toronto, Hampton said the New Democrats would have a lot of work to do. (Hampton had been at the helm of Ontario's New Democrats since 1996, when he took over from former premier Bob Rae.)

Date: 2008-06-14
Placeline: TORONTO, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 19 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << we need to have a robust leadership campaign our leadership campaign is one of the ways that we get these issues before the people of Ontario conservatives are not going to raise them Mackenzie and the Liberals are not going to raise them only new Democrats will raise these issues >>

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