urbandreamer
recession proof
Tim Who dat?
Yet, he's apparently beating Andrea Horwath in our poll.
Not even in Lewis/Rae days? Heck, in the 70s, Stephen Lewis was much more the cosmopolitan urbanite choice than the Bob Nixon Liberals. And Rae vs Peterson = Toronto vs London, even if that's a weaker metaphor.The provincial NDP have never been particularly urban-minded, which may explain part of that.
I wouldn't expect that to change much either under Horwath.
Canadians and/or Ontarians really seem to love their political dynasties - witness the poll results above - and I think we suffer for it. In my opinion it's far better for us to keep it fresh and vote in a new party with new ideas, if only to keep the old and stale ruling party on its toes. Problems occur when a ruling party starts to take its hegemony for granted and Toronto is the classic example: the conservatives spend no money here because they know there's no votes for them, and the liberals don't have to spend any money here because they know they'll get the votes anyway. Contrast this with the situation in Montreal where all the political parties scramble and vie for popularity with their funds when in power and their promises when not....
Besides, it's not as if McGinty's been so fantasticly irreplaceable or that the PCs would be so intolerably eggregious, is it? Lets drop the partisan bullshit, which helps nobody, and ignore the political mudslinging propaganda (pcs are nazis and liberals are commies) and maybe, just maybe, if politicians knew they had to actually fight for power in Toronto they'd likely be more accountable and more generous to the city that unfortunately they tend to take for granted as in the 'back pocket'.
The problem is that there aren't really any fresh ideas coming from any of the party leaders right now.
I don't think that's fair. Why should we vote for a party with whose ideas we don't agree, just to get "noticed"....why must I vote conservative in order for the conservative government to spend any money in my riding.