By Pepper Parr
May 31st, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
It is still a tight race but the Liberals appear to be widening the gap.
Some readers have misunderstood what the Gazette has been doing.
The survey we have carried out is for the residents who are in the Burlington constituency.
Our survey has been one on one short interviews with more than 750 at this point. We will be surveying for an additional day.
We asked people four questions.
Question 1: Do you know there’s going to be an election in June?
Question 2: Do you know anything about the issues?
Question 3: Are you going to vote?
Question 4: Would you like to say who you will vote for?
Of interest is that the province wide polling being done by the Toronto Star has the Burlington seat leaning PC.
Burlington has been a rock bed of conservative people and Conservative voters; for the Star to suggest it is leaning PC would have the Star agreeing with the Gazette.
Of course it all comes down to what the voters think. We will never know what they think – but we can urge you to think and then vote.
I too have had several calls from OSSTF but they have NEVER told me to vote Liberal. My calls advised me to vote “for anyone but Ford.”
Isn’t it sad that the OSSTF has so little confidence in the members’ ability to think for themselves and treat them like children – telling them how they should vote.
Meanwhile I’ve had 4 phone calls in the past week from OSSTF urging me to vote for the Liberal candidate.