Toronto: June 2nd 2022

4 years after sweeping the Liberals from power, Doug Fords PC party faces voters today. Held at the last possible date, todays election is the conclusion of a month long campaign that saw the Premier fight hard and sometimes dirty to hold power. The Liberals and NDP fought the election on Covid, damning the Ford government for a poor response, in addition the PC party was accused by the Liberals in particular of failing to live up to promises made in 2018. The NDP accused the Premier of cronyism with an ad that ended with the the slogan "Doug Ford: Here for his buddies, not for you". For their part the Tories accused the Liberals of being hellbent on power and nothing else. And taking notes from federal politics Ford accused the NDP and Liberals of preparing for a coalition. At debates all these points and more were thrown out by the three party leaders, by the time polling day came around the consensus was clear. This was the most vitriolic, dirtiest and most personal campaign in Ontario history. Even amongst individual candidates this was true, the Green candidate in the premiers riding likened him to his late brother Rob saying the premier was "clearly drugged up too". All of this has lead to polling showing that a hung legislature is likely and that warnings of a coalition may not have dissuaded swing voters. As polls opened today it is clear that the result will be on a knife-edge.

2022 Ontario General Election

Toronto: June 3rd 2022

Doug Ford faced a massive rebuke from voters in Ontario last night. Losing 24 seats in what insiders in the PC called a shellacking, Ford has lost his majority and likely government. The Liberals picked up 44 seats in a massive swing from their dismal 2018 result, taking from both the PC and the NDP Del Duca and the Liberals completed a comeback for the ages. At 51 seats to the Tories 52 the balance of power belongs to the NDP, and at her election party Andrea Horwath has stated the NDP will support the Liberals to end the PC government. Doug Ford did not speak at his party last night and in a statement stated that the results were disappointing but that as the party with the largest share of seats and votes that he had first right to form government. And after these two leaders spoke, Del Duca s

After a 41-day campaign, voters across Canada will go to the polls to elect Members of the 43rd Parliament. With polls being historically close throughout this campaign, and with a few unexpected twists, turns, and surges, tonight is certainly going to be entertaining from start to finish. Please familiarize yourself with subreddit rules before posting in tonight's thread. While Rule 3 is generally relaxed for election discussion threads, please keep your comments on-topic, and do not devolve into personal attacks.

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Canada once again stands on the precipice of change. Election season, the 43rd in the young nation’s history, has arrived in Canada once again- and it is one for the record books. Since incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election in 2015, Canada and her people have seen significant changes, both at home and around the world- the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency in the United States naturally caused shock waves in Canada, and would directly lead to a simmering trade war between the two nominal allies and intense negotiations over the NAFTA trade deal and its potential replacement, USMCA. Similarly, China and Russia have been consistent concerns of Canada and her allies, particularly in the High Arctic, where Russian and Canadian claims to sovereignty verge and overlap one another. In Europe, Brexit continues to be of interest and concern to many Canadians, who fear Britain’s fate outside of the modern European Union it helped form. Climate change has also been a pressing concern to the Canadian people, with 75% of Canadians agreeing that more needs to be done to combat the issue and that Canada has an obligation to lead on addressing Climate Change globally.

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• 124/124 seats reporting

• Last update: 12:31am

• 63 seats required for a majority

• 8 seats required for Official Party Status

• At dissolution, there were two independent incumbents not running for re-election (Patrick Brown, Michael Harris) and five vacant seats.

Parties Not Listed Above Running More Than 10 Candidates

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• None of the Above / Direct Democracy Party (42)

• Trillium Party (26)

• Moderate Party (16)

• Freedom Party (14)

• Communist Party (12)

• Consensus Ontario (10)

• Northern Ontario Party (10)

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The fairness (treating all religions equal) should be enough to end this practice; but the simple fundamentals of removing duplication (separate education boards, trustees, 2 schools in same areas etc) is a logical reason. Selling off the surplus schools after combining them to reduce debts or for affordable housing or for parks: anything else is another reason. A common secular education I'm thinking would probably help reduce social divides. (Parents, Sunday school, Mosques etc. can still teach their kids their chosen religion.)

Legally I know Quebec, Newfoundland, and Manitoba all eliminated funding denominational separate schools. Only 3 provinces have it in the Charter to support it. Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan. Can't there be a constitutional amendment to change that though? The Charter has been changed before.

Financially The Roman Catholic school system gets about 33% of Ontario's $24-billion education budget, but only 23% of electors direct their education taxes to separate schools.

That means everyone, including those who have selected to not fund catholic schools are funding catholic schools. Source:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/catholic-school-funding-challenge-heard-in-court-1.998987

https://peopleforeducation.ca/public-education-in-ontario/how-education-is-funded/

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