David Peterson
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Sep 27, 2026
TonyHOST
We've heard by now, because it's Sunday, you will have heard.
TonyHOST
People talk about David Peterson in Ontario called an early election in 1990 because he was ahead and that brought on Bob Ray and his reign of terror in Ontario.
TonyHOST
There's more recent examples.
TonyHOST
Let's go to 1992.
Paul PalangoHOST
It's happened before everywhere.
Paul PalangoHOST
It happened in Ontario with David Peterson.
Paul PalangoHOST
In England, others who tried to jump the gun.
Paul PalangoHOST
That kid
Shachi KurlGUEST
Uh, and it has played both ways.
Shachi KurlGUEST
The, the biggest example that's always cited was the David Peterson election, uh, back in the 1980s.
Shachi KurlGUEST
Ontario Liberal Premier David Peterson called an early election, ended up losing that election.
Shachi KurlGUEST
There are lots of examples of leaders curling, uh, sorry, calling early elections, uh, incurring the wrath of the electorate, but ultimately it doesn't necessarily make a difference to the way they were going to vote.
Shachi KurlGUEST
We saw that as, you know, in, in the last, uh, second to last BC election in 2020 with John Horgan going to the polls, uh, a year early.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
Um, so there was a lesson in that.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
You can look at the David Peterson election too, when he decided to go early and ended up losing to Bob Rae.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
So David Eby decides to do a Walter Weir in BC on the day after the Conservative leader resigns, and he's taking a bit of a beating already in terms of the reaction to it, um, that he did it all out of... called the election the next day out of self-interest and the interest of his party.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
What, um, what do we make of that? Why don't you start, uh, Chantal?
Chantal HébertPANELIST
It was not on Saturday.
Chantal HébertPANELIST
The Conservative leader who was embattled quit instead, and you still call the election? [sighs] What do you think happens to a, a party that thinks it may have a shot at government if only it gets itself organized really quickly, uh, and turns around and presents a better face to voters? Suddenly the numbers shift, especially since you've insulted the intelligence of most voters by telling them that you're doing an election for their sake and not for your own sake.
Chantal HébertPANELIST
So it's gonna be an interesting campaign, but I too covered, not Ed Schreyer obviously, but David Peterson.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
Peterson.
Shachi KurlGUEST
And it has played both ways.
Shachi KurlGUEST
The biggest example that's always cited was the David Peterson election back in the 1980s.
Shachi KurlGUEST
Ontario Liberal Premier David Peterson called an early election, ended up losing that election.
speaker_4ADVERTISER
There are lots of examples
Shachi KurlGUEST
of leaders calling early elections, incurring the wrath of the electorate, but ultimately it doesn't necessarily make a difference to the way they were going to vote.
Shachi KurlGUEST
The biggest...
Shachi KurlGUEST
Example that's always cited was the David Peterson election back in the 1980s.
Shachi KurlGUEST
Ontario Liberal Premier David Peterson called an early election, ended up losing that election.
Shachi KurlGUEST
There are lots of examples of leaders calling early elections, incurring the wrath of the electorate, but ultimately it doesn't necessarily make a difference to the way they were going to vote.
Shachi KurlGUEST
We saw that in the second-to-last B.C. election in 2020 with John Horgan going to the polls.
Shachi KurlSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Got about fifty percent in this province saying it is time for a change.
DavidHOST
David Eby's plan has backfired.
DavidHOST
Welcome back to Moose and Loose.
DavidHOST
Today, we've got some new polling data, and it doesn't look good for David Eby.
DavidHOST
We've also got a bunch of other stories here, Mark Carney.
DavidHOST
Let's jump into this.
DavidHOST
We're seeing the BC Conservatives go up six percent and the NDP down six percent.
DavidHOST
Pretty much trading points here.
John Michael McGrathHOST
When Doug Ford, and here, we'll bring it back to Ontario politics here.
John Michael McGrathHOST
When Doug Ford opted to call that early election last year, I mean, one of the things we spoke about on the podcast, I think lots of people talked about was like the curse of David Peterson, right? If you call an early election, can it blow up in your face? And it did not really blow up in Doug Ford's face.
John Michael McGrathHOST
Not at all.
John Michael McGrathHOST
He did not win anything particularly in addition to what he had already held before the election call.
John Michael McGrathHOST
It's, it's early days and I really, uh, I don't want to do anything as bold as make a prediction, but the first few days of this election campaign seemed to me to be a bit rockier than, uh, what Doug Ford faced, uh, early in his, uh, early election call.
John Michael McGrathHOST
Um, and I, I think there's definitely potential for this to go sideways for EB's government.
Steve PaikinHOST
I remember in 1990 when David Peterson called an election three years into a four year term, uh, strategically not a dumb decision at all.
Steve PaikinHOST
Frankly, the Conservatives had just chosen a new leader in Mike Harris.
Eric GrenierHOST
Or 40 years.
Eric GrenierHOST
Early election, people mentioned David Peterson in 1990.
Eric GrenierHOST
Yeah.
Eric GrenierHOST
Yeah.
Graham RichardsonHOST
I remember.
Graham RichardsonHOST
Who doesn't? David Peterson in Ontario, right? NDP leader David Eby framing the race as a referendum on Trump and the trade war, attacking the opposition conservatives yesterday for their record on standing up to Trump.
Graham RichardsonHOST
Here is Eby.
David EbySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Lorne Dirksen stood by after a meeting with the American ambassador when the conservatives, every single conservative MLA, stood by and announced that we should put the liquor back on the shelves without any concession from the Americans.
45 MINS LATER
Marika WalshPANELIST
That's
Graham RichardsonHOST
good.
Graham RichardsonHOST
Okay, well, when we come back, we're going to talk about B.C. Is it David Peterson, the horror story from provincial governments past, many, many years ago, calling an election for an opportunistic time? That brought us Bob Ray in Ontario.
Graham RichardsonHOST
That then brought us the Common Sense Revolution.
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