Someone explain Ontario politics to me?
Liberals have been in for over a decade. Two Liberal premiers have had their times in office mired by extremely poor financial decisions, terrible political partisanship, they've had party members charged with corruption, they singlehandedly ruined both the energy and industrial sectors, and had prominent members of parliament call different parts of non-Toronto Ontario "a wasteland".
The conservatives previous leadership was running on a very centre-left platform, with the hope that Liberal voters would vote for him instead because he was all progressive but promised good financial choices (which was, imo, the only hope). A couple weeks ago a pair of sexual misconduct allegations brought him down in the space of three hours. He plans to sue the news source for failure to do due diligence, as the people changed the story in a crucial way. Last night they elected the populist Doug Ford, brother of now deceased former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, to lead them in the next election. My guess is his platform will be anti-establishment and anti-government, and will be centre-right. We'll see how that goes
Then there's the NDP who, for some reason, don't do anything, even though this is the perfect time for them.