Ontario Premier Doug Ford has officially set a provincial election in motion for Feb. 27, more than a year before the next fixed election date.
The election had been set for June 2026, but Ford confirmed last week he would trigger the vote, saying he needs a new mandate to deal with four years of a Donald Trump presidency in the United States.
The premier visited the lieutenant-governor to dissolve the provincial legislature today, and writs ordering elections in all 124 of the province's electoral districts are to be issued on Wednesday.