{"id":26012,"date":"2014-05-28T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26012"},"modified":"2014-05-28T09:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:34:47","slug":"ontario-election-2014-the-local-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/ontario-election-2014-the-local-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario election 2014 &#8211; the local front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_26013\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/includes\/provincialelections\/ontariovotes2014\/pdf\/100.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26013\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Whitby-Oshawa-riding-boundaries.png\" alt=\"Click to download full-size PDF\" width=\"510\" height=\"631\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Whitby-Oshawa-riding-boundaries.png 510w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Whitby-Oshawa-riding-boundaries-121x150.png 121w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Whitby-Oshawa-riding-boundaries-480x593.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to download full-size PDF<\/p><\/div>So far, the local candidates have been almost invisible here in Whitby-Oshawa. Last week, we had a canvasser show up for Progressive Conservative candidate Christine Elliot (the incumbent MPP), but that&#8217;s literally it. As far as I know, this is the complete list of registered candidates for the riding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christine Elliott, Progressive Conservative<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Kelly, NDP<\/li>\n<li>Ajay Krishnan, Liberal<\/li>\n<li>Stacey Leadbetter, Green<\/li>\n<li>Douglas Thom, Freedom Party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertarian.on.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario Libertarian Party<\/a> issued a press release the other day, boasting that they were &#8220;in a position to form a majority government&#8221;. Which sounds <em>great<\/em>, but all it really means is they&#8217;re finally running enough candidates that, should they all be elected, the OLP would have enough seats to form a majority. A <em>subtle<\/em> distinction, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d agree.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the massed ranks of OLP <strike><font color=\"red\">sacrificial lambs<\/font><\/strike> candidates, they don&#8217;t have one in Whitby-Oshawa. This means that instead of wasting my vote by voting Libertarian, I&#8217;ll waste my ballot on Douglas Thom of the Freedom Party (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomparty.on.ca\/archive\/2012\/12\/21\/they-keep-asking-now-we-answer-freedom-party-versus-libertarian-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">Splitters!<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p><em>CBC News<\/em> has a profile of the riding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/elections\/ontariovotes2014\/ridings\/view\/riding-100\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. For other Ontario ridings, you can look them up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/elections\/ontariovotes2014\/ridings\/index\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the local candidates have been almost invisible here in Whitby-Oshawa. Last week, we had a canvasser show up for Progressive Conservative candidate Christine Elliot (the incumbent MPP), but that&#8217;s literally it. As far as I know, this is the complete list of registered candidates for the riding: Christine Elliott, Progressive Conservative Ryan Kelly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,53],"tags":[188,550,87],"class_list":["post-26012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-libertarianism","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Ly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26018,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions\/26018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}