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During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985, the Ontario PC Party adhered to the ideology of Red Toryism, favouring government intervention in the economy, increased spending on infrastructure, education and health care and being progressive on social issues such as equal pay for women, anti-discrimination laws, voting rights for ...
The Ford ministry is the Cabinet, chaired by Premier Doug Ford, that began governing Ontario shortly before the opening of the 42nd Parliament.The original members were sworn in during a ceremony held at Queen's Park on June 29, 2018.
[52] Ontario's francophone population represents from 550,000 to 744,000 people in a province of 14 million, according to The New York Times with many concentrated in Sudbury, Ontario, in northern Ontario and near the Ontario-Quebec border in eastern Ontario. [52] The Ford government again came under criticism from the Franco-Ontarian community ...
The party's 76,587 members [1] were eligible to cast votes by preferential ballot.The vote will be weighted so that each of the province's 107 ridings that has more than 100 votes cast are allocated 100 electoral votes; [2] ridings in which fewer than 100 party members vote will not be weighted, but will instead have the votes counted as individual votes. [3]
Vijay Thanigasalam MPP is a Canadian politician who has been the Ontario associate minister of housing since 2024 and the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Scarborough—Rouge Park since 2018, representing the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. He was previously the Ontario associate minister of transportation.
The political party that wins the largest number of seats in the legislature normally forms the government, and the party's leader becomes premier of the province, i.e., the head of the government. Ontario's current primary political parties are the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC), the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), the ...
In the 2018 Ontario provincial election, Laurie Scott was re-elected for a fifth-term as the MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock. She received 56.7% of the vote and won with a margin of victory of more than 17 000 votes over the second-place NDP candidate Zac Miller. [ 10 ]
Ultimately, The Ontario court of appeal accepted Ontario's position that the Better Local Government Act, 2018 did not infringe the Charter s. 2(b) freedom of expression rights of either municipal voters or candidates. In January 2019, Clark proposed changes to the Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan. [9]