The winner of the PC leadership race will be announced on March 10. That means prospective voters in Ontario won't have long to form their views of the PC candidate vying to lead the country's most populous province. An Ontario PC Party led by Ford will have a big favourability deficit to overcome. Mainstreet found that, unlike under Mulroney, a Ford-led PC Party would lose Toronto. But unlike with Elliott and Mulroney, most voters have already made up their minds about Ford and will be hard to budge.

Source: CBC News February 06, 2018 09:00 UTC