"Liberals cruise to victory in Toronto Centre" (Chrystia Freeland wins)

[applegrove]

Liberals cruise to victory in Toronto Centre

by Joe Friesen and Adrian Morrow at the Globe & Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-cruise-to-victory-in-toronto-centre/article15600267/?utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=The%20Globe%20and%20Mail&utm_type=text&utm_content=TheGlobeandMail&utm_campaign=111181280

"SNIP.............................


Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland cruised to victory in the Toronto Centre by-election Monday, handily defeating NDP candidate Linda McQuaig.

Ms. Freeland will immediately enter the House of Commons with an important role in Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s caucus. She has already been named co-chair of his council of economic advisers and is expected to become a prominent voice among Liberal MPs.

The author and former Globe and Mail journalist campaigned on a promise to champion the cause of the middle class. In a riding where middle income earners are in the minority, the issue of growing inequality between rich and poor was a major issue with voters.

Ms. Freeland arrived at her victory party at the Jack Astor’s restaurant at Yong-Dundas Square to the sound of the crowd chanting her name. As she took the stage, barely visible behind the television cameras, Ms. Freeland let loose a triumphant “We did it!”



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[BlueToTheBone]

1. Good for her. I didn't know she was

a candidate. I've seen her a few times on Bill Maher.

[applegrove]

2. Yes I like her. So glad she won.

[BlueToTheBone]

3. victory after victory

it seems that the pendulum is swinging again.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. I'm disappointed she won.

McQuiag was the progressive candidate.

Freeland is another platitude offering, limousine Liberal, riding on Trudeau's coat tails. Her only solutions to the thinning of the middle class is more Neoliberlism: tax breaks and incentives for the global business class, and enriching the plutocrats that she writes about, by handing over CPP funds to gamble on P3 projects.

...we need to become the world’s most attractive destination for entrepreneurship. As traditional middle class jobs vanish, we need to build a platform that makes it easy for driven, inventive Canadians to take risks and create new ones. Third, we need to find ways to realign business incentives with public ones.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/path-leading-to-middle-class-prosperity/article13476291/

[arikara]

5. I know...

The next election is going to be really tough, and the chairman will be the only beneficiary. There is no other way for him to win except for a split vote.

[CanSocDem]

7. Me too, but....

...there is always this: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

.

[CHIMO]

6. We did it!

We Shot the HIPPO!