TORONTO – An Ontario Liberal government will ban handguns across the province in its first year in office, Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca announced today in his party’s latest platform plank release.

“I’ve had it with Doug Ford’s open for business policy for guns.” Del Duca said, “The Ford Conservatives are putting the interests of the gun lobby ahead of the Ontario victims of gun crime they swore an oath to protect. The result is handgun violence is spiraling out of control. The choice on handguns is clear, more handguns and gun crime under the Ford Conservatives or a ban on handguns under the Ontario Liberals.”

An Ontario Liberal Government would do what Doug Ford won’t and ban the sale, possession, transport and storage of handguns. Our plan will also:

Accept the federal government’s offer to fund a buy-back program;

Partner with the federal government to stop gun smuggling at the Ontario-US borders;

Advocate to extend the ban nationally so that guns can’t be funneled through inter-provincial borders.

The rest here - https://ontarioliberal.ca/steven-del-duca-announces-liberals-will-ban-handguns-provincewide/

I wonder maybe they should ban drugs too?

Ban crime. That would be so simple.

The guy looks like a freak. That picture could scare voters away. . It’s not nice to say, but it’s clear he has no one in charge of shaping his public image.

So sorry none of my pieces of art can reach that far. And I can’t afford gas for a long trip.

Strange times we loiter in.

Strange indeed. The freakshow continues.

Dude in that picture looks like a child fugger.

The molester is simply after the vote, there is zero evidence, science, data, statistics, logic behind wanting to ban handguns from any law abiding, licensed gun owners in Canada, period.
Its shameful to use gun owners as a political football, but here we are.

FIRST READING: Why Ontario is poised to re-elect Doug Ford despite everything

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has spent a surprising amount of his tenure as one of Canada’s most hated provincial leaders, but he’s poised to win re-election anyway for the simple reason that Ontarians seem to hate the opposition even more.

In a new Leger poll for Postmedia, Ford’s Progressive Conservatives enjoyed a double-digit lead over their Liberal rivals. With a 39 per cent share of the vote (and with the caveat it’s early days and anything can happen in an election campaign) it’s a virtual guarantee that the June 2 vote will see them returned to office.

There hasn’t been a single poll conducted in 2022 that showed the PCs in anything other than first place. Even the Toronto Star — no fan of the Ford government — was declaring this week that they are “on track to win another majority.”

The rest here - https://theprovince.com/news/ontari...to-re-elect-doug-ford-despite-hating-him
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Why federal Liberal voters are key to Doug Ford's Ontario election chances

Polls suggest 20-25 per cent of Ontarians who backed Justin Trudeau's party last year plan to vote PC
Mike Crawley · CBC News

Doug Ford and his Ontario Progressive Conservatives are aiming to draw a significant amount of support from voters who only eight months ago backed Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party in the federal election.

Winning over federal Liberal voters is a crucial ingredient for Ford to find a path to victory on June 2. The Ontario PCs simply cannot succeed with only the backing of those who voted for the Conservative Party of Canada last September.

"There's just not enough (core) Conservatives in the province for you to win a majority government or even a minority government with them alone," said David Coletto, CEO of polling firm Abacus Data.

Recent polling by Abacus Data as well as by the polling firm Research Co. found that roughly one-fifth to one-quarter of Ontarians who voted Liberal in last year's federal election say they intend to vote for the PC Party in the provincial election.

That translates into a potential 500,000 voters who backed Trudeau in 2021 casting their ballots for Ford's party in 2022.

The rest here - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...liberal-conservative-switchers-1.6459275

Those idiots (both the libs and cons) will say ANYTHING to get re-elected and the idiot voters will believe them.

Someone has to run the show. Voters have to choose from what’s out there. I would rather have Ford than Del Duca or Horwath.

Most voters aren't smart enough to vote. They simply vote for who they like the best or will give them the most stuff. Party platforms or what's best for the country long term never plays into it.

This is why democracy is a failure.

I went to an advanced poll this morning. It’s so much easier than waiting for election day.

They are predicting a Ford majority.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2022/5/24/1_5916650.amp.html

I’ll do my part on June 2nd. It will be interesting to see how many votes the New Blue party can take from Ford’s Conservatives. Typical of the right to splinter off and form another right leaning party and fight amongst themselves. Just my opinion, I’ve seen this in Alberta and at the Federal level and now in Ontario. Have a good weekend.

Nick

When I saw my first New Blue sign, I wondered what they were all about. Nothing to get hyped about. They strike me as grumpy Gusses who should deal with the Conservatives directly.

Just my opinion, but they will fizzle.

Have a good weekend too !!

Notice how coincidentally Castreau trots out changes to the Firearms Act which would permit cities to ban handguns within their jurisdiction just 5 days before the Ontario election?

Deluca is sucking hind tit in this race but I guess Castreau is trying to give him a leg up.

Justin cannot help him. Ford has it locked.🙃

Steven Del Duca failed to win his seat of Vaughan-Woodbridge and his Liberal Party did not attain official party status in Thursday's election.

The rule in Ontario is 12 seats to have official party status. Losing that status means no money from the province to help run their organization. Staff salaries, Parliamentary research and other things. They don't get official recognition in debates, and in effect are independents members of the legislature. They only speak after the big guns finish, if time is allotted to them by the Speaker.

With another dismal showing by the Liberals, Del Duca is resigning as leader. That's no loss for the Liberals, but a loss for Conservatives who enjoyed his tenure as leader. He wasn't effective.

Lots of changes to several provincial and federal political parties, post COVID.

Now you Canucks know why we put the 2nd amendment in the Bill of Rights.