Toronto voters say federal byelection is a referendum on Justin Trudeau’s future
The upcoming Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection will be a critical test for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his party — a bellwether indicating how the party is faring in an area of the country where Liberals have performed well for decades.
CBC News spoke to 15 voters in the riding to gauge support for the incumbent party and to learn more about what’s motivating people at the ballot box.
While the June 24 byelection is being held to pick a new MP for Toronto’s midtown, some voters are treating the summer vote as a referendum on Trudeau’s time in power.
I am not expecting a Liberal loss. It is a decades long safe seat in a city that consistently votes stupid.
How stupid are Toronto voters? They elected Chairman Chow.
Further Toronto is its own little eco-system of progressive idiocy, an outlier surrounded by normalcy.
The article below (From 2019) is an accurate reflection of current concerns expressed by progressives in the CBC piece.
Toronto is often an outlier for public opinion, researchers say
Toronto is often an outlier in terms of public opinion across the province on various topics, such as immigration and climate change, a survey has found.
Research conducted on behalf of the Mowat Centre, a think tank at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, found that otherwise, there are not many general differences of opinion across the regions.
But a main finding of the research is that Toronto seems to be different than other regions.
