Ontario 2018 election

[jaichind]

Rob Ford's widow Renata sues Doug Ford

Wow.  I wonder if they timed this on purpose to be right before the election.  I guess the answer must be yes.

[jaichind]

Final Mainstreet poll:

https://www.scribd.com/document/381043555/Mainstreet-Ontario-June5

PC 39.0%
NDP 34.3%
Lib 20.2%
Green 4.9%
Other 1.7%

LIB support went up from their May 27th poll ? And this poll is done on June 3-4 which is after Wynne's speech ..

[jaichind]

Well should there be a minority (seems unlikely given what the Liberals will be reduced to), the greatly reduced OLP (with what - like 5 seats?), Mike Schreiner of the Greens and the NDP should surely agree to move towards proportional representation in Ontario.

I doubt they would get the libs to agree to that - they benifit from FPTP. Same reason Trudeau quietly dropped the issue after he won.

If this is such a big deal then NDP and Greens should work out an alliance model where they have seat adjustment since there is no way LIB or CON will agree to PR.

[jaichind]

Is not LIB getting to 8 seats a key threshold ? If LIB does not get to 8 seats then they will not achieve official party status and as a result if no party has a majority then it would be simpler to NDP to poach some of the LIB MPP to get to a majority.  If LIB get about 8 then it will have to be a party-to-party deal between NDP and LIB.