PWDVOTE is proud to represent thousands of disabled people living in poverty across this province.
People who are struggling to stay alive.
This election is not about winning for many of us—it is about survival. It is simply about stopping Doug Ford. Ontario is in an existential crisis, and no one feels this more than people with disabilities. After seven years of Doug Ford, only you can save us.
There is a long list of reasons why we need to remove Ford from office. You are familiar with all of them. This is not just an existential election for Ontario but also for people living in poverty and those with disabilities. We cannot allow U.S.-style cruelty to take hold here, yet it is already threatening to do so. Ford is not interested in the struggles of everyday people. He does not care about families grappling with autism. He believes homeless encampments are full of “bad people,” when in reality, they are full of disabled people who have lost their housing.
We are one week away from the election. Neither of you will form a government alone. Without cooperation, we could—unimaginably—be looking at another Ford majority.
If you collaborate, the outcome could be vastly different.
Collaboration would not only shift the numbers but also upend the campaign and dominate the news cycle until election day. It would make the existential stakes of this election unmistakably clear. It would galvanize people and give them hope.
For the good of this province, we ask you to examine the ridings where a combined vote could defeat the PCPO and either withdraw a candidate or urge voters to support the stronger opposition contender.
The closer you look at the data, the clearer it becomes—only collaboration will get this done.
The most critical goal is to prevent another Ford majority. That means converting 40 ridings where either the OLP or the ONDP are competitive. It means focusing on those ridings exclusively over the next two weeks.
Currently, there are:
• 38 seats that are “winnable” for either the OLP, ONDP, Greens, or independents.
• 15 seats that are toss-ups.
• 19 seats that are leaning in our favor.
Even if we were to win all of them—which is unlikely—that would bring us to 72 seats. But there are 28 additional ridings that are currently “likely” PCPO wins.
We need the OLP, the ONDP, the Greens, and independents to focus on stopping Doug Ford, not individual party victories, to flip just 11 of those likely PCPO seats.
This requires a complete shift in strategy toward these key ridings. They are winnable, but only if you work together.
With that in mind, the PWDVote community formally releases its endorsement. We endorse collaboration between the three opposition parties.
We would endorse the Green Party platform for its commitment to basic income, opposition to clawbacks and deeming, and strong support for accessibility—positions we greatly applaud.
But the Greens cannot form government. The NDP cannot form government. The OLP cannot form government.
We are asking you—as people whose lives literally depend on who sets policy for this province over the next four years—we are begging you to work together. If you do not, it will be a death sentence for tens of thousands of us who are barely surviving now. Another four years of Ford will mean misery, illness, absolute poverty, and MAiD for those who see no other option. ODSP and OW MUST be doubled immediately.
This is now, and has been for a while, a human rights issue, as MAID hovers ominously over every decision disabled people in poverty make.
We will formally ask the UN to intervene if these changes are not made in the six weeks after the election.
We also urge all disabled voters, and those who love and support them, to vote strategically in their ridings and to fight back against this government’s attempts to suppress voter turnout with everything they have.
Key Ridings
Winnable
• AJAX – OLP
• DVW – OLP
• Hamilton Mountain – NDP
• Hamilton West – NDP
• Humber River – OLP
• London Fanshawe – NDP
• Mississauga Centre – OLP
• Mississauga East – OLP
• Mississauga Erin Mills – OLP
• Mississauga Lakeshore – OLP
• Nickel Belt
• Scarborough Guildwood – OLP
• Sudbury – NDP
• Thunder Bay – OLP
• Waterloo – NDP
Leaning
• Algoma
• Barrie–Springwater
• Etobicoke–Lakeshore
• Haldimand–Norfolk
• Ancaster
• London North Centre
• London West
• Markham
• Milton
• Mississauga–Streetville
• Mushkegowuk–James Bay
• Nepean
• Niagara Falls
• Oakville
• Oshawa
• Ottawa West
• Toronto Centre
• Toronto–St. Paul’s
• Windsor West
It is up to you.
