McGuinty calls by-election for Sept. 17
Voters in the key Toronto riding of St. Paul’s will be heading to the polls on Sept. 17.
The by-election will fill the provincial seat vacated in June by former cabinet minister Michael Bryant, who held the riding for a decade.
It will be the first time voters have gone to the polls since Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government unveiled its controversial plan to merge the eight per cent provincial sales tax with the five per cent federal GST.
There’s been plenty of opposition to the plan, which will raise the cost of many goods currently exempt from the provincial levy.
Eric Hoskins, who was an adviser to former federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy, will run on the Liberal ticket.
Toronto newspaper columnist Sue-Ann Levy is expected to represent the Progressive Conservatives, while the NDP are expected to choose their candidate Sept. 9.
Realtor and community activist Chris Chopik will represent the Green Party.
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Mitch Says:
Anyone taking bets on how TO will vote? After the e-health theft & the hst tax increase will the people of Canada’s once richest, friendliest and cleanest city finally wake up and vote for something other that a worthless POS liberal or dipper?
I guess we’ll know in a little under a month.
Posted on August 20th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Cynapse Says:
Hard to say … Toronto is a Liberal (big-L) town but Sue-Ann Levy hardly first the conservative stereotype. She is also personally popular as a writer so I think she has a real chance.
Posted on August 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Mitch Says:
I just finished an article which stated that TO’s unemployment rate jumped to 11.5% from 8.5% last year. That rate is above the provincial and federal rate. I would think high costs of living & doing business in TO due to fees and taxes need to fund the social programs a partly to blame. Add to this the corruption at city hall and the constant caving in to unions and special interest group and I’d say that the majority of TO is getting what it deserves.
Unfortunately the good people of the city, that is those who understand what is going on is beyond wrong, will pay their unfair share or be forced to give up and leave. I suspect that many who could have left already. Both people and business.
If the people who live in the city continue to elect leaders who are destined to repeat the past mistakes then I hope they elect them all and quickly so the collapse will come and those left with some smarts can try and rebuild.
I just hope ontario isn’t bankrupted in the process.
Here’s hoping for some change. For the better.
Posted on August 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Mac Says:
Good luck, Ms. Levy!!
Posted on August 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
nomdeblog Says:
I went to the nomination last night, Sue-Ann Levy is bold and articulate; a terrific conservative candidate.
She is very well informed on Toronto politics and the issues around “His Grayness and Socialist Silly Hall”.
Toronto has been irresponsibly cut lose by McGuinty and we’ve been left to dangle with Miller and his unions and his developer pals who support his campaigns.
The Greater Toronto Hamilton Area is 7 million people and growing to 9 over the next 20 years. The GTHA is the engine of the new economy in Canada, yet McGuinty leaves us stranded with Comrade Miller. We do indeed need more funding as Miller keeps saying but we can’t allocate money to Miller because he’ll just give it to CUPE… the city has added 1,200 extra workers in the middle of a recession, his exec committee has no concept of restraint.
So Tim Hudak’s call to Sue Ann Levy was a shrewd move. Hopefully she’ll soon be part of Premier Hudak’s new government and that will be a great opportunity for Torontonians to start to reinvest in our City.
The Liberal candidate is 48-year-old family physician Dr. Eric Hoskins who was policy advisor to Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy .. ‘nuff said!
Ohhh I almost forgot… she introduced her new wife … 200 conservatives clapped, nobody fainted.
Posted on August 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
UV Says:
I also wish her well.
Posted on August 21st, 2009 at 5:02 pm
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