Ontario election: PCs see support dip but remain far ahead, new Ipsos poll says [Video]

The Progressive Conservatives have shed a few points but continue to hold a commanding lead over their provincial rivals in the final week of Ontario’s election campaign, a new poll shows.

A poll conducted exclusively by Ipsos Global Public Affairs for Global News shows if the election were held tomorrow, the PCs would record a comfortable win.

Doug Ford’s party pulled 46 per cent support in the new poll, with Bonnie Crombie’s Liberals in second place at 25 per cent. Marit Stiles and the NDP were in third at 21 per cent and Mike Schreiner’s Green Party was in fourth place at eight per cent.

The poll represents a slight shift from public opinion at the beginning of the campaign. The PCs are down four points, the Greens are up two and both the Liberals and NDP have seen a one-point boost.

“It looks at the moment like Premier Ford and the Progressive Conservative Party are cruising …