Toronto

When Doug Ford was elected leader of Ontario’s center-right Progressive Conservative Party in March, the media hyperbole began almost immediately. Headlines proclaimed Canada’s most populous province would soon elect its very own Donald Trump. A Toronto Star column called Mr. Ford’s campaign to unseat Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne a “Trump-Clinton rematch.” A Canadian writer wondered in a New York Times op-ed whether provincial voters would elevate a “tin-pot Northern Trump” in Ontario’s June 7 general election.

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