Favored in Ontario’s Election: A Trump-Like Populist Dangling Tax Cuts
- Conservative candidate Ford in tight race with NDP’s Horwath
- ‘The middle has dropped out of Ontario politics’ pollster says
Andrea Horwath.
Photographer: Randy Risling/Toronto Star/Getty Images
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Ontario is voting for a new government Thursday after a tight election that offers two starkly different choices for Canada’s most populous province.
Opinion polls show the Progressive Conservatives, led by an irreverent populist promising tax cuts, likely to win against the left-leaning New Democratic Party, which is pushing higher social spending funded by tax increases. The incumbent Liberals, who have been in power since 2003, are staring at a historic defeat.