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The New Blue and the Ontario Party both have anti-pandemic mandate stances, and each boasts an incumbent MPP who was thrown out of the PC caucus in the last term. They are both among 21 minor parties — and 41 independent candidates — vying for about five per cent of voters dissatisfied with the mainstream options.
Four years ago the Ontario Liberals held a majority government and today they are not-so-affectionately dubbed "the minivan party," holding so few seats that they could carpool to a caucus meeting.
Polls suggest the Ontario Liberals may not be entirely out of the running, but going from seven seats to government is a tall order.
Four years ago the Ontario Liberals held a majority government and today they are not-so-affectionately dubbed “the minivan party,” holding so few seats that they could carpool to a caucus meeting.
Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger was not named to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet. University of Waterloo associate professor of political science Anna Esselment says that leaves a large area of southwestern Ontario unrepresented in cabinet.