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  • The 1990 question – Why call an election before its time?

    The early election call, only three years into a huge majority mandate, led to his Liberal Party’s devastating defeat at the polls. It lost 59 of the 95 seats held at dissolution…

    July 15, 2025
  • How the Liberals triumphed over the PCs in 1985

    Click on the image below to watch Steve Paikin’s interview with David Peterson, Helen Burstyn and Hershell Ezrin.  

    June 18, 2025
  • Preparing for the 1985 provincial election

    In October 1984, Ontario’s political trajectory took an unforeseen turn. Widely expected to call an election on Thanksgiving Monday, Premier William Davis instead announced his resignation, setting off a chain of events…

    June 15, 2025
  • 1990 candidate briefing book – Constitutional reform

         

    June 14, 2025
  • 1990 candidate briefing book – French language services

         

    June 14, 2025
  • 1990 candidate briefing book – Native affairs

         

    June 14, 2025
  • 1990 candidate briefing book – Victims of violence

         

    June 14, 2025
  • 1990 candidate briefing book – Sunday shopping

         

    June 14, 2025
  • 1990 candidate briefing book – Drinking and driving and anti-drug strategy

         

    June 14, 2025
  • 1990 candidate briefing book – Family law reform

         

    June 14, 2025
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