The provincial government is going to the polls today and I'm still on the fence about who to vote for, either PC or Greens. While the Liberals have not totally screwed up the province like a certain NDP government did way back, I'm still not happy with their "say one thing to get elected, do something else" philosophy. The Conservatives have some good planks, but like a lot of other Ontarians I have trouble getting past Tory's support for more religious school funding as I would rather go the other way.
The Green party is unproven but I do like their focus on Environment and better cities. Enough to vote for them to make a point? Perhaps.
As for the referendum, I'm definitely voting for the change to Multi Member Proportional (MMP) over First Past the Post (FPTP). I believe that there are real advantages to MMP for properly representing the voters of Ontario, and the fear-mongering of supports of FPTP have convinced me that they have no argument beyond "hey, its worked ok so far." Well, read this column by Andrew Coyne to see why that is not good enough.
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