The Next Premier of Ontario Will Be…

In a previous column it was postulated the current PC premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, will be a one-termer. (Canada Free Press, Dec. 6, 2020). So if this turns out to be true, who will lead the Ontario government after the next election scheduled to take place in June 2022? It is perhaps better and certainly easier to begin by a process of elimination; which parties or leaders will not govern after Ontarians go to the polls in a year and a half from now? To begin with, we can rule out the Green Party of Ontario. Although party leader Michael Schreiner became the first member of his party to sit in the Legislature after the last election, no one is suggesting the party is currently anywhere close to obtaining party status let alone governing.