Election primer: Ottawa South

After having been firmly conservative for 60 years, the seat of Ottawa South was held for more than 25 years by two generations of McGuinty’s under the Liberal banner. (**The McGuinty family fief since the 1980s, Liberal MPP John Fraser won the seat after his former boss retired in 2013 — by a narrow margin in a byelection, and then comfortably in 2014. He’s the favourite to be re-elected but, like Lalonde and Naqvi, could be vulnerable if the Liberals’ popularity keeps s