Silence&Motion
Senior Member
Or progressives could, you know, vote for Chow.
I'll never vote for Tory, largely because of the reasons mjl08 so clearly enumerates. Tory is a four-time losing back-room party hack with no civic politics experience who seemingly had his roots in the sensible Red Tory tradition, but then embraced the looney social conservative wing when he ran for Premier, and seemingly continues to espouse this approach. He's at best a phoney and panderer, and at worst yet another knee-jerk conservative.
No thank you. I'll take the alleged "socialist" who actually sat on Toronto city council for a decade making the city work over Tory.
My original post about progressives not having someone to vote for was in response to the suggestion made earlier that Chow might step aside to let Tory run (which I find hard to believe). If Tory is who passes for a "progressive candidate" in Toronto these days, then we're in big trouble. Sure, he supports transit expansion, but he'd most definitely put a Board of Trade, pro-business agenda ahead of a social justice agenda. I'd wait to hear his platform, but I doubt I could support him.
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