Ontario’s perfect storm for apathy

We just had an Ontario election where the PCs berated the Liberals, who, saddled with an uninspiring leader, were unwilling or unable to strike back. It was a perfect storm for voter apathy.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, pictured on the Hill on Nov. 21, 2019, just won a massive majority victory by getting the votes of just 18 per cent of Ontario’s eligible voters.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

June 9, 2022

OAKVILLE, ONT.—The Ontario election’s historically low voter turnout has generated lots of anxious handwringing. University professor and author Emmett Macfarlane bluntly summed up much of that anxiety when he tweeted, “The worst government in the history of the province and (censored) couldn...

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