Ontario 2022 election campaign to officially begin Wednesday
Premier Doug Ford met with Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell at 3 p.m.
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Premier Doug Ford met with the province's lieutenant-governor on Tuesday to request that the Ontario Legislature be dissolved.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell accepted his recommendation and called for writs for the election to be issued Wednesday and formally named June 2 as election day.
That means the 2022 election campaign will officially kick off tomorrow.
Elections Ontario says that a notice of an election will be formally posted on its website at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Before meeting with Dowdeswell, Ford told reporters the election "will be a pretty clear choice" between going backward "like previous governments did" or moving forward with his Progressive Conservatives.
"We are going to start building infrastructure, we are going to continue building roads and highways and bridges. We are going to create great jobs for the people of Ontario," Ford said.
"Folks, June 2, you'll have the choice."
The parties have already been unofficially campaigning for weeks, with two out of the three major parties having released their platforms.
Polls at this point suggest the Progressive Conservatives are poised for re-election, with the third-place Liberals potentially overtaking the NDP to form the official Opposition.