The Liberals’ victory in Ontario shows that campaigns for an active role for the state can still have wide political appeal

Last week, voters in Canada’s largest province of Ontario elected a Liberal majority against the odds, with almost 70 per cent of the vote going towards parties on the centre-left. Reflecting on the campaign, Claudia Chwalisz writes that even in a liberal market economy, a campaign for an active role for the state can have serious political traction, and that the Liberals’ victory in Ontario means that the party may have a chance of building the broad coalitions of support necessary to win next year’s federal election.