2015 Federal Liberals Moved From Third Place to Government; Can 2022 Ontario Liberals Recover?

2015 Federal Liberals Moved From Third Place to Government; Can 2022 Ontario Liberals Recover?
Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca arrives for the Ontario election leaders’ debate in Toronto on May 16, 2022. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
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Provincial Liberals have drifted to irrelevance in some provinces, such as Alberta and Saskatchewan, and in Manitoba they hold just three seats. But in Ontario, despite falling from the party forming government to third place in 2018, some observers say it’s a different story.

“The Liberal brand is very strong in Ontario. After all, they’re the dominant party federally. They certainly aren’t in Alberta,” Nelson Wiseman, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Toronto, said in an interview.

Lee Harding
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Lee Harding is a journalist and think tank researcher based in Saskatchewan, and a contributor to The Epoch Times.
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