Michael Taube: What the Kitchener Centre Provincial Byelection Means—and Doesn’t Mean

Published on December 3, 2023

Commentary Voters often approach general elections and byelections with a different lens. The former is a specific vote that can contribute to a government’s election or re-election. The latter can be a multi-purpose vote to send a message about the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of a government, party, leader, or the political process. Which brings us to the recent Kitchener Centre byelection. What did this result mean, and, of equal importance, what did it not mean? Laura Mae Lindo, the riding’s NDP MPP, announced in July she was going to leave politics and join the University of Waterloo. She had held this seat since 2018, capturing it from one-term Liberal MPP Daiene Vernile. Before this, it had been represented by John Milloy (Liberal) from 2003–2014 and Wayne Wettlaufer (Progressive Conservative) from 1999–2003....

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