{"id":20872,"date":"2018-06-08T00:36:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T04:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20872"},"modified":"2018-06-13T23:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T03:28:03","slug":"elliott-parsa-elected-auroras-representatives-at-queens-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/elliott-parsa-elected-auroras-representatives-at-queens-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott, Parsa elected Aurora\u2019s representatives at Queen\u2019s Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora\u2019s two Progressive Conservative candidates handily won the right to represent you at Queen\u2019s Park on Thursday night.<br \/>\nIn Newmarket-Aurora, PC candidate Christine Elliott ousted incumbent MPP Chris Ballard, Minister of the Environment.<br \/>\nWith 58 of 60 polls in Aurora\u2019s north riding reporting early Friday morning, Ms. Elliott secured 47 per cent of the vote with 23,329 ballots cast in her favour.<br \/>\nIn second place was Melissa Williams of the NDP with 23.8 per cent of the vote (11,768 ballots), followed by Mr. Ballard just behind with 23 per cent of the vote, or 11,336 ballots cast.<br \/>\n\u201cTo all the residents of Newmarket-Aurora, we\u2019re ready to bring real change to Ontario, starting tonight,\u201d Ms. Elliott told supporters, joined on the dais by her three sons at her Newmarket campaign office. \u201cDuring the 10 years that I served as an MPP, and for all of the travels I have done since then, I have heard the same thing. No matter where I went, no matter where I went, I heard, \u2018Christine, I need your help; I am trying to feed my children, clothe them, pay my hydro bill and it is becoming impossible. Or, outside, I\u2019ve heard, \u2018I can\u2019t get my mother into a long-term care home\u2019 and \u2018I can\u2019t get a family doctor for her.\u2019 Do you know what else they said to me? They said, \u2018Will you listen?\u2019 Such an honest, simple request.<br \/>\n\u201cHere\u2019s my answer to them, to all of you tonight, to everyone in Newmarket-Aurora: Yes, we are listening. Yes, we hear you. Yes, help is on the way.\u201d<br \/>\nSpeaking to The Auroran after her victory speech, the former Whitby MPP said she plans on planting firm roots in the community and has been looking at listings to purchase a home in the riding.<br \/>\nFurther south on Yonge Street, PC candidate Michael Parsa secured the newly-minted riding of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill with 56 per cent of the vote, or 25,214 ballots cast in his favour.<br \/>\nHe was followed in second place by Naheed Yaqubian of the Liberal Party with 21.6 per cent (9,718 votes), and Katrina Sale of the NDP with 18.04 per cent (8,116 votes).<br \/>\nThe Iran-born Mr. Parsa was greeted by a raucous crowd at Aw, Shucks where he delivered a poignant message to supporters.<br \/>\n\u201cThis journey for me started a few years ago. I joined the Conservative party in 1993. Never in my wildest dream did I think that a young immigrant to Canada would one day have the opportunity to run for office and be elected,\u201d he said. \u201cThe reason I get up every day in my campaign and I tell my team, \u2018win or lose, that we have won already,\u2019 is because of you, Canada, Ontario and all Canadians who gave me an opportunity. You have given every young immigrant who is in this room a chance to say, \u2018I can do it. I can make it. Canada will allow every single one of us to live the dream.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F20872&amp;t=Elliott%2C%20Parsa%20elected%20Aurora%E2%80%99s%20representatives%20at%20Queen%E2%80%99s%20Park&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F20872&amp;p[images][0]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F06%2F2018-06-07-17.jpg&amp;p[title]=Elliott%2C%20Parsa%20elected%20Aurora%E2%80%99s%20representatives%20at%20Queen%E2%80%99s%20Park\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F20872&amp;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Elliott%2C%20Parsa%20elected%20Aurora%E2%80%99s%20representatives%20at%20Queen%E2%80%99s%20Park&amp;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F20872\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora\u2019s two Progressive Conservative candidates handily won the right to represent you at Queen\u2019s Park on Thursday night. In Newmarket-Aurora, PC candidate Christine Elliott ousted incumbent MPP Chris Ballard, Minister of the Environment. With 58 of 60 polls in Aurora\u2019s north riding reporting early Friday morning, Ms. Elliott secured 47 per cent of the vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-07-17.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5qE","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 20:49:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}