Could Ontarios snap election break records for low voter turnout? [Video]

When Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford called a snap election at the end of January citing the threat of tariffs from the United States, his political opponents cried foul.

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie, NDP Leader Marit Stiles and the Greens’ Mike Schreiner all said the call was a selfish decision to press home a political advantage and win another four years as premier.

The early election call is a gamble another Progressive Conservative leader was rewarded for just a couple of months earlier in Nova Scotia.

“I always had the feeling that Tim Houston took Doug Ford’s idea of going for an early election, it’s just that Houston did it first for different reasons,” Lori Turnbull, a professor with Dalhousie University’s faculty of management, told Global News.

“I think they face very similar political circumstances in the sense that the Liberals and the NDP are alive and well in both provinces but not anywhere near alive and well enough …