There will be an election in Ontario on June 2. It will be an election that is really about leadership. You will be hearing much about it as election day gets closer. It would be very wrong to assume anything about this election. People who live in Ontario, care about Ontario and are concerned about the province’s future, will want to think about it and vote in the election.
An election about leadership is the simplest way to look at an election. It is as simple as ABC. You have Doug Ford, conservative, Steven Del Duca, liberal, and Andrea Horwath, new democrat. If you always vote for one of those parties, you might not think you have a problem.
But nobody is perfect.
Mr. Ford has been a disaster. His bombast, his erratic leadership in the pandemic, the desertion of his sinking ship by key members of cabinet such as the healthcare minister and the long-term care minister make you wonder. Also, people are very skeptical of his reasons for promoting highway 413 when developers have bought the farmland around all the proposed highway interchanges before it was announced publicly.
And after ten years of Ms. Horwath leading the new democrats, we know she is not even an effective opposition leader. After the past four years as the official opposition, the new democratic party leader failed to have any impact on the Ford government or prove to be a viable alternative.
Mr. Del Duca of the liberals, has a different problem. Nobody really knows him. He has been leader of the liberals for the past two years and has made some promises to try for attention. He needed to be in the legislature. It will be his performance in the election that will decide.
The alternative is to pick the best candidate in your riding to represent you. A good candidate is one who knows your riding—knows its needs and knows how people feel. You want to be proud to have this person represent you.
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