the Walnut Diary

In today’s Toronto Star there’s a debate among contributors about whether Ontario voters would benefit from the next provincial vote run according to the principles of ranked ballots. I tried to post the following comment but they were no longer accepting input.

So here it is:

Did ranked ballots make the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party any better? Had Tania Granic Allen not switched her social conservative votes to support Doug Ford, Christine Elliot would be the Premier today. Nobody can reasonably state that Ford’s immediate dumping of Granic Allen was a legitimate move, even though the rules of ranked ballots allowed it. This deprived Ontario of the services of a reasonable, intelligent leader going into the pandemic. Instead we got Homer Simpson.