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June 3, 2022 • 5 hours ago • 3 minutes reading • 21 comments The controversial former Ontario MP Randy Hillier is not running again in Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston this election and his former voters voted for a more conventional candidate on Thursday. Photo by TONY CALDWELL / Postmedia / File
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Glengarry — Prescott — RussellSmiren leaping
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Amanda Simard dumped Doug Ford’s group before it got cold. Progressive Conservatives would fire MPP Roman Baber (now running for the federal Tories) after he publicly registered his disagreement with COVID government policy. But Simard resigned just months after his election in 2018 to protest Ford’s decision to cut funding for the French language commissioner in the province. Although initially independent, Simard joined the Liberals in 2020. At first, the ride was quite liberal (Simard was the first computer chosen there since the 1990s), but on Thursday night he turned to PC candidate Stefan Sarazin. . Poetically for Simar, who crossed the floor to defend his rights in French, Sarazin is a French-Ontarian.
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Don Valley WestCheng in Kathleen Winn’s ride
In 2018, Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne may have witnessed the most disgraceful defeat of the Liberals since the Confederacy, but she at least avoided this unique humiliation of Westminster by losing her place. When the results were counted in the rich ride of Don Valley West in Toronto, she kept it with only 181 votes. Winn is not running this time (the Liberal candidate is corporate accounting veteran Stephanie Bowman), but progressive conservatives have brought in a stellar candidate to make sure he becomes a son. Mark Saunders is a former Toronto police chief and was one of a wave of North American police chiefs who abruptly resigned in 2020 at the height of the “police release” rhetoric. But that was not enough; the ride went to Bowman.
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York South Weston Another Ford in Queens Park
The next generation of the Ford dynasty, Mike Ford, has already dipped his finger in politics, being a school trustee and city councilor in Toronto. The prime minister is his uncle, as is former Toronto mayor Rob Ford; Mike’s mother is the couple’s sister, Cathy Ford. But they didn’t make Junior Ford particularly easy to drive; essentially a tripartite draw was reached in 2018, which ended in victory for the NDP. The tripartite split essentially happened again on Thursday night, albeit with Ford in first place. For those who think so, this makes three generations of Fords in Queen’s Park; Doug and Cathy Ford’s father, Doug Sr., was an MP for Etobicoke-Humber for four years in the 1990s.
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After a quiet campaign, Doug Ford’s computer is jealous of the majority in Ontario
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Riding by riding Ontario election results
Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston Randy Hillier’s adventure is coming to an end
When this ride voted strongly in Randy Hiller in 2018, it would be easy for them to imagine choosing a relatively conventional progressive conservative. He has been an MPP since 2007 and even ran for the computer leadership in 2009. But then he was expelled from the misconduct group in 2019, eventually becoming a staunch supporter of Freedom Convoy and charged with criminal accusations after openly calling on protesters to blind 911 lines while police cleared the anti-mandate blockade in Ottawa in February. On Thursday, riding voters showed they didn’t really like the scammers: they reliably chose the PC candidate, John Jordan, and gave only symbolic votes to the populist, Ontario and New Blue parties, respectively.
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Parry Sound – Muskoka Conservativeland (almost) turns green
While the ride is going on, driving to a villa on Parry Sound – Muskoka is quite conservative. This was the ride of PC Prime Minister Ernie Ives, and their federal MP Scott Aichison is currently running for the federal Tories. So it was a bit unexpected that the final polls showed that the ride could eventually go to Green Party candidate Matt Richter, who is running for a fifth time. One big reason is that the Liberals dumped their Parry Sound candidate, Muskoka, Barry Stanley, after it turned out that he had published a book with strange claims that homosexuality was caused by a lack of oxygen at birth. And, amusingly, on the rare occasions when the Greens do flip riding, they usually turn to conservative ones. Such was the case with the first Greens MP elected in Canada, Elizabeth May, and the first Green MLA in British Columbia, Andrew Weaver. But it seems that the stars did not catch up for Richter, who had to settle for a solid second place.
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