Get out and vote in Ontario election, mayor of Mississauga tells residents [Video]

Mississauga’s mayor is urging city residents and people across Ontario to get out and vote in Thursday’s provincial election, noting it’s especially important to do so in “a time of unprecedented change in our country and around the world.”

On the eve of Ontario’s snap election, Mayor Carolyn Parrish penned a letter addressed to residents of both Canada’s seventh-largest city (unofficially eighth-largest given Brampton’s recent population surge) and people throughout the province.

She’s pleading with eligible voters to do their part to reverse the current trend of low voter turnout.

“Declining voter participation isn’t just a statistic, it’s a challenge that burdens the healthy state of our democracy. It’s a call to remind ourselves why voting matters,” Parrish wrote, noting voter turnout in the 2022 Ontario election “was the lowest in our province’s history,” with 44 per cent of eligible voters casting ballots.

That meant “more than half of Ontarians …