The Ontario 2018 election thread

[robkelk]

The Campaigner, June 1 - Horwath campaigns in Wynne's riding

(For our friends in the USA: Ontario has a Parliamentary government, where the legislature member best able to command a majority in the legislature is "asked" to become the Premier. In practice, this person is the leader of the party that has a majority of seats in the legislature. Our executive branch is almost completely symbolic.)

I'm old enough to remember when there was a gentlemen's agreement that party leaders simply did not campaign in other party leaders' ridings. Mind you, it's been a long time since politics was a gentlemen's pursuit... but this is still sufficiently newsworthy to lead the daily campaign news report.

Meanwhile, Ford has discovered that there's a lot of Ontario north of Algonquin Park, and is now campaigning there.