This is a special edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN.

Longest ballot strikes again!

(The ballot for the Toronto St. Paul's byelection) pic.twitter.com/pyRxg4S9IP

Voters in the St. Paul’s riding believe they’re living amidst Canada’s most consequential political happenings.

Ottawa with its seething gossip, Quebec with its linguistic convulsions and the West with its populist stampedes are all considered child’s play compared to the dinner-party conversations and achingly earnest political pronouncements heard on the west side of midtown Toronto—a jurisdiction where the total Jewish population has been estimated as being around 11 percent.

If the Liberals do not win this riding on June 24, and it looks increasingly like that’s a possibility, there will be immense pressure on Justin Trudeau to resign as their leader immediately — “within days,” a well-known Liberal suggested to me over the weekend.… pic.twitter.com/BTkVIwzVNe

For example, don’t you know that if the Conservatives somehow succeed in winning the riding it will spell doom for embattled Justin Trudeau? For weeks, the Liberal caucus has been threatening mutiny if Fortress St. Paul’s doesn’t stay in the Liberal fold. This while allegations of treason, out of control Speakers, and Mark Carney doing the drag-him-into-the-leadership-with-his-fingernails-digging-furrows-into-the-floor act doesn’t get them to break a sweat. But making or breaking a prime minister would definitely qualify as an appropriately dramatic turn befitting this riding’s storied history.

We remember the terrible cost of Mike Harris' Ontario, which is........

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