ABOVE THE FOLD
Take a deep breath Ontario, it’s Election Day.
While we won’t know for sure how this will all shake out until shortly after polls close at 9 p.m., we do know that not much has changed since day one of this snap campaign.
State of play: DOUG FORD and the PCs are still riding high in the polls and boast a double-digit lead over the Liberals, who have managed to overtake the NDP in the race for second place.
Ford’s big lead is owed in large part to the ballot-box question, which the PCs have framed as a leadership matter: Who do Ontarians want in their corner now that we’re in the thick of DONALD TRUMP’s chaotic tenure?
“I want to be Premier forever,” Ford said, brushing off a question about the RCMP’s Greenbelt probe. Then, confidently: “I think we have a shot at all 124,” he told reporters in Tecumseh. Ford also zig-zagged to London, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Waterloo, and, ahem, Mississauga East-Cooksville, where BONNIE CROMBIE is running.
