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Ontario Election 101
Antonella Artuso
Published: May 6, 2018
Updated:May 6, 2018 7:05 PM EDT
From left: NDP leader Andrea Horwath, PC leader Doug Ford and Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne (Toronto Sun files)
Here’s what you need to know:
Date of provincial election: Thursday, June 7
Not to be confused with: Ontario-wide municipal elections for mayors, councillors and others on Oct. 22
What’s confusing about provincial election: A voter’s riding may have changed, Ontario is going to 124 electoral districts, up from the current 107, to reflect growing population
Official start of provincial campaign: Writ issued Wednesday (May 9) at 12:01 a.m.
Premier Kathleen Wynne listens to her throne speech being delivered in Ontario’s legislature on Monday. (STAN BEHAL, Toronto Sun)
Not supposed to be about the money: As of 2017, the Ontario government banned political donations from corporations and unions. An individual can donate a maximum of $1,222 to a provincial party each year, a combined maximum of $1,222 to the provincial constituency associations and nomination contestants, and during an election period, an additional combined amount of $1,222 to registered candidates.
Ontario taxpayers directly subsidize provincial parties: In first three months of 2018, $1,185,487 to the Ontario Liberal Party, $959,603 to Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, $728,107 to the New Democratic Party of Ontario and $147,893 the Green Party of Ontario
Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford takes questions from journalists during a pre-budget lock-up as the Ontario Provincial Government prepares to deliver its 2018 Budget at the Queens Park Legislature in Toronto on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Third-party advertising: Third-party groups, especially unions, have outspent the political parties in advertising which targeted their foes. This time around, there’s a limit on their spending — $600,000 in the six months before the writ drops, and $100,000 during the official campaign.
Political party limit on pre-election spending: $1 million
NDP leader Andrea Horwath Craig Robertson, Toronto Sun
First and last televised leaders’ debates announced so far, who’s invited and who’s not:
May 7 on CITY-TV and May 27 at CBC broadcast centre; Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne, NDP leader Andrea Horwath and PC leader Doug Ford. Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner was not invited, something he has protested
Promises, So Far:
NDP has released its full election platform, called Change for the Better, which includes daycare at a price averaging $12-a-day (free for poor, no subsidy for wealthy), dental and prescriptions for all (provincial program in tandem with workplace plans), 2,000 more hospital beds, and declaring Ontario a “sanctuary province” so that immigration status does not impact people’s access to services like ERs.
Liberals have released a budget, called A Plan For Care And Opportunity, that offers free pre-school child care for kids ages 2 1/2 and up, ending the deductible that seniors pay for drugs, new drug and dental program providing a maximum of $400 per individual, up to $750 annually to eligible households led by seniors 75 and older, and boosting minimum wage to $15 an hour on Jan. 1
Tories, under the banner For The People, are releasing their election planks individually, and have so far promised to fire the $6.2-million head of Hydro One, eliminate income tax for minimum wage earners, end taxpayer subsidies to political parties, build 30,000 long-term care beds, audit spending and balance the provincial books.
Memorable Quotes
Wynne: “(Ford) may be Donald Trump but I’m not Hillary Clinton.”
Ford: “I accept Kathleen Wynne’s challenge to three televised debates. Let’s do the first one outside the jail where the senior Liberal operative will be spending four months.”
Horwath: “You don’t have to choose between bad and worse, between Wynne and Ford.”
Antonella Artuso
Published: May 6, 2018
Updated:May 6, 2018 7:05 PM EDT
From left: NDP leader Andrea Horwath, PC leader Doug Ford and Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne (Toronto Sun files)
Here’s what you need to know:
Date of provincial election: Thursday, June 7
Not to be confused with: Ontario-wide municipal elections for mayors, councillors and others on Oct. 22
What’s confusing about provincial election: A voter’s riding may have changed, Ontario is going to 124 electoral districts, up from the current 107, to reflect growing population
Official start of provincial campaign: Writ issued Wednesday (May 9) at 12:01 a.m.
Premier Kathleen Wynne listens to her throne speech being delivered in Ontario’s legislature on Monday. (STAN BEHAL, Toronto Sun)
Not supposed to be about the money: As of 2017, the Ontario government banned political donations from corporations and unions. An individual can donate a maximum of $1,222 to a provincial party each year, a combined maximum of $1,222 to the provincial constituency associations and nomination contestants, and during an election period, an additional combined amount of $1,222 to registered candidates.
Ontario taxpayers directly subsidize provincial parties: In first three months of 2018, $1,185,487 to the Ontario Liberal Party, $959,603 to Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, $728,107 to the New Democratic Party of Ontario and $147,893 the Green Party of Ontario
Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford takes questions from journalists during a pre-budget lock-up as the Ontario Provincial Government prepares to deliver its 2018 Budget at the Queens Park Legislature in Toronto on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Third-party advertising: Third-party groups, especially unions, have outspent the political parties in advertising which targeted their foes. This time around, there’s a limit on their spending — $600,000 in the six months before the writ drops, and $100,000 during the official campaign.
Political party limit on pre-election spending: $1 million
NDP leader Andrea Horwath Craig Robertson, Toronto Sun
First and last televised leaders’ debates announced so far, who’s invited and who’s not:
May 7 on CITY-TV and May 27 at CBC broadcast centre; Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne, NDP leader Andrea Horwath and PC leader Doug Ford. Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner was not invited, something he has protested
Promises, So Far:
NDP has released its full election platform, called Change for the Better, which includes daycare at a price averaging $12-a-day (free for poor, no subsidy for wealthy), dental and prescriptions for all (provincial program in tandem with workplace plans), 2,000 more hospital beds, and declaring Ontario a “sanctuary province” so that immigration status does not impact people’s access to services like ERs.
Liberals have released a budget, called A Plan For Care And Opportunity, that offers free pre-school child care for kids ages 2 1/2 and up, ending the deductible that seniors pay for drugs, new drug and dental program providing a maximum of $400 per individual, up to $750 annually to eligible households led by seniors 75 and older, and boosting minimum wage to $15 an hour on Jan. 1
Tories, under the banner For The People, are releasing their election planks individually, and have so far promised to fire the $6.2-million head of Hydro One, eliminate income tax for minimum wage earners, end taxpayer subsidies to political parties, build 30,000 long-term care beds, audit spending and balance the provincial books.
Memorable Quotes
Wynne: “(Ford) may be Donald Trump but I’m not Hillary Clinton.”
Ford: “I accept Kathleen Wynne’s challenge to three televised debates. Let’s do the first one outside the jail where the senior Liberal operative will be spending four months.”
Horwath: “You don’t have to choose between bad and worse, between Wynne and Ford.”
