Although the parties have been making a number of announcements and rallies over the past few weeks, the electoral campaign will officially begin on Wednesday in Ontario. It will last a month: Ontarians will go to the polls on June 2nd.
The election call follows the dissolution of the Ontario Parliament, which Doug Ford requested Tuesday to the lieutenant-governor. Work was postponed last Thursday, after Doug Ford’s electoral budget was drafted.
The budget, which promises $ 158 billion in capital spending over 10 years, aims to woo voters through measures such as gas tax cuts and highway construction.
It was not adopted and will serve as an election platform for Doug Ford.
The Ontario NDP platform, announced last week, focuses on health and cost of living.
So far, chef Andrea Horwath has refused to disclose the value of her program, but she has promised to do so during the campaign.
Once we get those numbers, you get them, before people even go to the pollssaid Ms. Horwath in an announcement on Tuesday.
Steven Del Duca’s Liberals platform, who launched his campaign on Sunday on his previous ride to Vaughan-Woodbridge, should be announced in the coming days, according to the party.
The leader promises wallet -related measures, such as $ 1 public transportation until January 2024.
Mr. Del Duca was defeated in Vaughan-Woodbridge in the 2018 election. His main goal is to revive the party from its ashes.
Green Leader Mike Schreiner has also made several promises recently, including making the highway illegal in Ontario’s Greenbelt, where Doug Ford has promised to build two controversial highways.
The chamber at the time of its dissolution
When the chamber dissolved, the Liberals had only 7 seats. 67 seats are held by the Progressive Conservatives. Vegetables have one and the NDP38.
Two small parties from social rights are also represented in the Legislative Assembly: the Ontario Party and the New Blue Party, respectively by MPs Rick Nicholls and Belinda Karahalios. These MPs were not elected under these banners, but joined them after being removed from Doug Ford’s caucus because of their opposition to health measures.
Doug Ford was first in the polls
CBC Poll Aggregator (New window) gives Doug Ford a comfortable lead so far, with 37% of voting intentions. The Liberals were second with 29% and the NDP, which formed the official opposition in Queen’s Park, came in third with 22%.
According to Éric Grenier, who manages the aggregator of CBCif the election were held today, there would be almost one in six chances that the computer failed to form a majority government. Liberals may more than triple their number of seats, the analyst believes, but they will have to reclaim the seats the NDP won in the last election.
The first half of the election campaign therefore threatened to be a two-way battle for the anti-Ford vote.
Met last week in their offices, the strategists NDP Some media, including Radio-Canada, were told that they were safethat their party would be able to establish itself as the progressive alternative to Doug Ford. They look forward to the Liberal campaign running out of steam after a few days, despite the current polls.
Campaign manager Michael Balagus believes that NDP can make further successes in Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie and Nippissing (riding Minister Vic Fedeli), among others.
Doug Ford announced his campaign bus on Saturday, which his team called Yes Express , a reminder of one of his campaign slogans. Ang computer position themselves as the party that says yes and show NDP as the party of no .
Against NDPang computer and the Liberals will not have a media campaign bus. The Ford team had already abandoned this tradition in 2018, but it was a first for the Liberals, who had to pay off a $ 10 million debt after being bitten by dust in the last election.
They don’t have breasts like they used to. But money is never a guarantee of success.
In 2018, on the hotly contested ride to Sudbury, the Liberals spent $ 97,000 but came third; ang NDP won by spending four times less.
In Sault Ste. Marie, the toughest race in the Northeast, the Progressive Conservatives overtook the New Democrats by just 400 votes but spent $ 44,000, compared to $ 14,000 for NDP.
Debates of leaders
The first leaders debate is scheduled for May 10 in the North Bay and is hosted by the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities. The rivalry should be related to issues affecting the region, which Doug Ford wants to amuse constituents from Andrea Horwath.
The French debate, organized by Radio-Canada and TFO, is scheduled for May 17. Four candidates from major parties will battle it out, but their names have not yet been revealed.
Source: Radio-Canada
