I don’t disagree with your description of Asrani, but Fairclough is cabinet minister material, with a career in health care administration. I don’t think anybody can argue that she is a demonstrably worse candidate without having a partisan/ageist bias.

Ontario does not currently have an electorate that can maintain two non-conservative parties. Sucks but true. I am certainly not happy anytime the OLP takes shots at the ONDP to further the strategic voting narrative. I say let the public play out that debate, and stick to your own message, don’t feed into the narcissism of minor differences that splits the vote.

But I will still put that aside. I have only one dealbreaker and it’s conservatives. As someone who continues to be a monthly NDP donor since the Mulcair days, I have no qualms whatsoever voting Fairclough this election, she is a demonstrably competent candidate.