Videodrome
Senior Member
None of the remaining candidates represent cities or urban areas.
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2014 Ontario Provincial Election
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None of the remaining candidates represent cities or urban areas.
adma
Superstar
Uh, as suburban as it may be, Whitby-Oshawa isn't exactly non-urban...
Videodrome
Senior Member
I suppose Barrie would be considered an urban area. It has grown a lot recently and people commute from there.
http://www.thestar.com/news/queensp...naughton-staffer-charged-with-harassment.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/queensp...naughton-staffer-charged-with-harassment.html
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christiesplits
Senior Member
Yeesh the PC leadership race has been an absolute gong show.
Videodrome
Senior Member
It was very quiet until recently. Now McBigot supporters are going on the attack. No wonder they haven't won an election in some time...
Meanwhile, Elliott is set to make an announcement and it seems like McBigot's numbers were much lower than he claimed.
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salsa
Senior Member
Front runner Christine Idiot is now touting her "fiscally responsible" bonafides. What does that mean you ask: cutting the Ontario business tax rate to 10% from 11.5 to attract investment, and selling off assets "that don’t serve the core functions of government". In other words, sounds like yet another plan to use taxpayers money to subsidize businesses and corporations, and selling off whatever is left of Hydro, LCBO, etc. You know what, I had it with this party. I'd prefer the scandal plagued Liberals anytime, but unfortunately it's only a matter of time before these Harris hacks get in power again. People are tired of the Liberals, and the Sudbury by-election showed that Wynne is not much better than her predecessor like she once promised. Enjoy the good times while it lasts.
http://www.thestar.com/news/queensp...ut-plan-for-asset-sales-business-tax-cut.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/queensp...ut-plan-for-asset-sales-business-tax-cut.html
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Videodrome
Senior Member
I held my nose to vote in the last election, so to speak. I couldn't back Horvath and Hudak promised to fire 100,000 people and create one million jobs (Dr. Evil reference), so I just voted Liberal. Plus my MPP was one of the safest among Liberals (Brad Duguid), so I knew a PC vote was worthless.
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Videodrome
Senior Member
BUMP
This is why the Liberals will continue to get majority governments...
This is why the Liberals will continue to get majority governments...
ttk77
Senior Member
Yes...they should have learned from the last federal election how little the average Canadian feels about election fraud.
Videodrome
Senior Member
Yeah, he clearly doesn't want to win....
Videodrome
Senior Member
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/02/pcs-need-young-new-leadership-godfrey-says-in-endorsing-brown
TORONTO - Expressing frustration over four general election losses in a row, two high-profile Progressive Conservatives have thrown their support behind leadership candidate Patrick Brown.
Paul Godfrey, president and CEO of Postmedia Network, and Derek Burney, former Canadian ambassador to the United States and chief of staff to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, officially endorsed Brown on Thursday.
Godfrey said the two MPPs campaigning against Brown for the leadership are capable, but the party had dropped to just 10,000 members under their stewardship.
“They’ve had a shot at it,” Godfrey said. “This party needs young, new leadership.”
Godfrey said he was not speaking as a newspaper executive — Postmedia is in the process of purchasing Sun Media, which owns the Toronto Sun — but as a long-standing Conservative.
Brown has a proven track record of signing up tens of thousands of members to the Ontario PCs as part of his leadership campaign, Godfrey said.
The young Conservative MP will also be able to attract votes from labour supporters, urban residents and multicultural groups — a necessary attribute to lead the party to government, he said.
Burney said he’s supporting Brown because he believes a change is needed, both in the leadership of the provincial PC party and in Ontario government.
“This is a man who’s got a pragmatic focus on the issues of concern to people in Ontario and he’s got sensible ideas on things like economic growth, health care, education, power, energy ... they’re being badly, badly managed by the current (Liberal) government,” Burney said.
Ontario PCs will vote for a new leader in early May, and their choice will be announced at a convention in Toronto on May 9.
MPP Christine Elliott, who has received a lot of support from her caucus colleagues, and MPP Monte McNaughton are also seeking the leadership.
McNaughton noted he has gained the support of Toronto Councillor Rob Ford, who has a strong following in the city.
Elliott said she’s proud to be supported by former PC premier Bill Davis.
Brown said he has brought in more than 40,000 new members — more than his competitors — and drawn support from within the nurse, police and firefighter unions.
Many labour groups across the province actively campaigned against the PCs in last spring’s election, as the party vowed to eliminate 100,000 public sector positions.
The 2007 election campaign went south after the party promised to fully fund faith-based education.
“I believe our party needs a reset — it can’t be the same-old, same-old approach,” Brown said. “And not being involved in any of the past policy disasters, I believe I can bring that fresh start to the party.”
TORONTO - Expressing frustration over four general election losses in a row, two high-profile Progressive Conservatives have thrown their support behind leadership candidate Patrick Brown.
Paul Godfrey, president and CEO of Postmedia Network, and Derek Burney, former Canadian ambassador to the United States and chief of staff to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, officially endorsed Brown on Thursday.
Godfrey said the two MPPs campaigning against Brown for the leadership are capable, but the party had dropped to just 10,000 members under their stewardship.
“They’ve had a shot at it,” Godfrey said. “This party needs young, new leadership.”
Godfrey said he was not speaking as a newspaper executive — Postmedia is in the process of purchasing Sun Media, which owns the Toronto Sun — but as a long-standing Conservative.
Brown has a proven track record of signing up tens of thousands of members to the Ontario PCs as part of his leadership campaign, Godfrey said.
The young Conservative MP will also be able to attract votes from labour supporters, urban residents and multicultural groups — a necessary attribute to lead the party to government, he said.
Burney said he’s supporting Brown because he believes a change is needed, both in the leadership of the provincial PC party and in Ontario government.
“This is a man who’s got a pragmatic focus on the issues of concern to people in Ontario and he’s got sensible ideas on things like economic growth, health care, education, power, energy ... they’re being badly, badly managed by the current (Liberal) government,” Burney said.
Ontario PCs will vote for a new leader in early May, and their choice will be announced at a convention in Toronto on May 9.
MPP Christine Elliott, who has received a lot of support from her caucus colleagues, and MPP Monte McNaughton are also seeking the leadership.
McNaughton noted he has gained the support of Toronto Councillor Rob Ford, who has a strong following in the city.
Elliott said she’s proud to be supported by former PC premier Bill Davis.
Brown said he has brought in more than 40,000 new members — more than his competitors — and drawn support from within the nurse, police and firefighter unions.
Many labour groups across the province actively campaigned against the PCs in last spring’s election, as the party vowed to eliminate 100,000 public sector positions.
The 2007 election campaign went south after the party promised to fully fund faith-based education.
“I believe our party needs a reset — it can’t be the same-old, same-old approach,” Brown said. “And not being involved in any of the past policy disasters, I believe I can bring that fresh start to the party.”
Videodrome
Senior Member
BUMP:
Seems accurate.
Seems accurate.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Though if that's indeed the case, why is she wanting to lead a party that, for better or for worse, is deriving an increasing amount of support from said group?
AoD
Videodrome
Senior Member
This is true. The PC's (less her) harped on the Sex-Ed stuff and got all of those wingnuts to show up.
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There is another protest of the Sex-Ed curriculum and only McBigot is going. Brown and Elliott. the two remaining leadership candidates, are wisely skipping it.
ETA:
There is another protest of the Sex-Ed curriculum and only McBigot is going. Brown and Elliott. the two remaining leadership candidates, are wisely skipping it.
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King of Kensington
Senior Member
Martin Regg Cohn seems to think that Brown has probably clinched it.
http://www.thestar.com/news/queensp...rown-could-be-ontarios-next-premier-cohn.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/queensp...rown-could-be-ontarios-next-premier-cohn.html