— Musings —06.19.2023 07:15 AM
Short version: the Left put up one candidate. The Right and Centre put up too many.
“The race to become Toronto’s next mayor is frontrunner Olivia Chow’s to lose as she enters the final stretch of the campaign with a seemingly unassailable lead, a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and the Toronto Star suggests.
The polling, completed between June 9 and June 13, shows Chow well in front of every other candidate in the race as voting day draws closer.
If the election was held tomorrow, Chow would take 38 per cent of the popular vote, the poll found. That’s well ahead of Mark Saunders in second place with 14 per cent and Ana Bailão with 12 per cent.”
Warren,
I like Olivia. Hope she wins. Jack would be so proud of her and her team.
I hope the socialist Chow proves to be a better fit for Toronto than the retread NDP’er Mayor Vancouver recently turfed. Whole districts of the city spiraled down into squalor while Mayor Stewart fiddled. It confirmed my suspicions that most socialists, left to their own devices, dont know their arses from a hole in the ground. Yer welcome.
PJH,
You deliver services that don’t cost taxpayers a totally unjustified fortune and you’ll make out pretty well during your term. Add to that not taxing people to death and the going’s good.
She lied her face off about Jack’s visit to that rub n’ tug. It was cringeworthy, like Hillary playing flak catcher for Bubba.
I like her too.
This win underscores Erin O’Toole’s parting words to
the Conservative base that Poilievre has to ‘moderate’
the Conservative position to make headway into the
GTA voter base on issues that the center left places
front & center for any political party that ever expects
to win the GTA federally.
O’Toole was right about the fringe populist Conservative base that has veered too far right
under Poilievre’s leadership.
And only a sensible lawyer can set that party straight
IMHO. Trumpism is not going to rule the day in the GTA.
What does IMHO mean? I agree with O’Toole, and your post, but I don’t know what IMHO means.
In my humble opinion.
In My Humble Opinion.
The seemingly unstoppable Ms. Chow leading the pack is a real head shaker and a shot across the gun wales of right of center candidates who would rather splinter their share of the vote than coalesce around ONE person.
It seems to me that many problems facing Toronto are related to general finances, out of control costs and delays of major projects, housing and rampant crime that is escalating in violence. And Toronto voters are going to elect a mayor who thinks big government is the answer? That Toronto should build its own affordable housing rather than overhaul zoning obstacles and let developers carry the financial burden of building homes?
It’s beyond stupid, and I can see the first order of business will be to hijack millions of of Ottawa to pay off the deficit.
I’m not sure she will make much difference one way or another. I find her underwhelming to be honest.
Olivia Chow is the voice of big government. She doesn’t impress me.
Reason number 1 million why I never fell for the constant “you should move to Toronto” schtick. Ridiculous overrated city. Can’t even handle a bit of snow.
That old retread? It wasn’t a bit of snow, I was here for it.
Ha ha ha. Lighten up Derek! But it doesn’t change my point. You can have the place.