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The Federal election follies of Scarborough-Southwest


When New Democratic Party leader and leader of the opposition, Tom Mulcair made his sweep through to speak to Toronto, he stopped by Scarborough-Southwest to speak to the faithful.

Scarborough only has two sitting federal members, Ms Rathika Sitsabaiesan of Scarborough North and Mr. Dan Harris of Scarborough-Southwest, where he opposed by Liberal former Toronto Police Service Chief Bill Blair.

Estonian Life asked Harris his opinion of the new opponent: "Blair carries a bit of baggage like, the G-20 summit (mishandling), the continued carding (of black youth). We've received an upsurge of donations since he (Blair) declared," replied Harris.
NDP M.P. for Scarborough Southwest Dan Harris. Photo: Adu Raudkivi

When Estonian Life asked former Councillor Doug Ford, if he was going seek the Conservative nomination, when meeting him at a U.S. Embassy reception July 8, '15 at Roy Thompson Hall. “I haven't decided yet, but I don't look forward to going to Ottawa,” answered Doug Ford.

Mulcair spoke in well articulated sound bytes, suit, no tie, the usual NDP mantra: $15 an hour minimum wage, subsidized daycare at $15 a day, no mention that were Canada were to bring all the lost manufacturing jobs from China, we would have no unemployment.

In the current copy of Mcleans magazine, the several articles on Mulcair made it look as if he had already been anointed as prime minister.

What still scares me is Mulcair vowing to repeal Bill-51 (which helps security forces fight terrorism) and to bring back Canadian fighter jets from fighting ISIS. I didn't get close enough to him to ask what his policy is to Eastern European security but I am glad because it probably would have upset me.

Some unhappy campers at the rally were postal letter carriers who had been receiving mixed messages from Mulcair. He has said that he won't stop letter carrying in the future, but at this point hundreds of letter carriers would have lost their jobs.

Adu Raudkivi

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