[NEWS] Five Canada politics links: expat voting, Doug Ford, Québec and Ontario, populism, austerity

[rfmcdonald]

• CBC makes a case for expat voting for Canadian citizens living abroad.


• Trish Audette-Longo at National Observer notes the refusal of Doug Ford to explain his claim that Ontario is giving California $C 469 million under cap and trade.


• Jim Stanford argues at The Globe and Mail that Doug Ford's budget proposals would lead to an economy-crippling austerity.


• Kelly McParland thinks that, although Québec has much healthier public finances than Ontario, in both provinces the governing Liberals are set for a defeat.


• Martin Regg Cohn, writing at the Toronto Star, thinks this election could turn into a contest between the populism of Doug Ford and the progressivism of the Liberals and NDP, and that things aren't looking good for the latter.