About an hour before Erin O’Toole, the man many believe will be Canada’s next prime minister, appeared in the ballroom, a blue van sat blocking the exit lane outside the Crystal Fountain Event Venue in Markham, Ontario. Inside, visible behind a propped up trunk door, lay a stack of blue campaign signs, all bearing the name Melissa Felian. Nearby, two Felian volunteers, blue masks around their chins, struggled to sink another sign into the hard ground beneath the late summer grass.
