Voters in Canada's most populous province, Ontario, head to the polls on Thursday in an election where the incumbent premier seeks to use U.S. tariff threats to expand his majority. Progressive Conservative Party leader Doug Ford called an election more than a year early,

Ontario is Canada’s most populated province and is expected to grow to 21.7 million this year, more than half Canada’s total. It is also Canada’s industrial heartland, and US tariffs could devastate the economy.

Ford has taken to sporting a "Canada is not for sale" hat and made two trips to Washington, D.C., during the election campaign to make his case against U.S. tariffs. He came under