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Originally Posted by wave46
I'd say not voting for the governing party might be a start - Sudbury, Thunder Bay, and the Sault (until recently) have been pretty reliable strongholds for the provincial Liberals. They make up a sizable bulk of the population of the north.
Nothing's going to change if you endorse the status quo. The rest of the ridings tend to go NDP (with the exception of Nipissing and the Sault currently).
The NDP would lose a lot of their seats should Northern Ontario separate, so I doubt they'd be for it. The question for them would if they'd like to be a big fish in a small pond (i.e. government of a new province) or a small fish in a big pond (usually the 3rd party in the Ontario legislature).
We'd have to vote for the Northern Ontario party pretty much across the board. Separatism in Quebec got a big boost when the PQ was voted in and moreso when the Bloc Quebecois was the official opposition at a federal level.
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Please don't get me started on the NOP. What I have learned about them has convinced me never to vote for them. They are no better than the current parties.