Voters in two Ontario ridings head to the polls in a pair of byelections Thursday, but most eyes will be on a Greater Toronto Area town, where the tight race comes with high stakes for both the premier and the new Liberal leader.
The southwestern Ontario riding of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex was held since 2011 by Monte McNaughton, who served in Opposition for the Progressive Conservatives and was made a cabinet minister in Premier Doug Ford's government, and it is widely expected to remain in Tory hands.
While a Tory loss in Milton would not affect Ford's majority, the party already lost a seat in a byelection last year that had been held by another cabinet minister and doesn't want a repeat. As well, Brander said, having Gill leave his cabinet post to seek a federal Opposition nomination is already a blow to the government.
Naidoo-Harris, the son of Indira Naidoo-Harris, who represented the area for the Liberals under Kathleen Wynne, has worked in the federal constituency office for Milton's Liberal MP. George Minakakis, chair of Action Milton, a group that has been fighting the quarry, said he believes the issue could sway voters.
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