{"id":20928,"date":"2018-06-14T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20928"},"modified":"2018-06-14T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:16:15","slug":"ontario-votes-2018-we-have-returned-ontario-to-the-people-says-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/ontario-votes-2018-we-have-returned-ontario-to-the-people-says-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Votes 2018: \u201cWe have returned Ontario to the people,\u201d says Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voters have returned Ontario to the people.
\nThis was the message delivered by Newmarket-Aurora\u2019s MPP-elect Christine Elliott to a jubilant group of supporters at her Newmarket campaign office as the numbers rolled in on Thursday night.
\nMs. Elliott, the former Whitby MPP and Progressive Conservative leadership candidate, ousted incumbent Liberal Chris Ballard in last week\u2019s Provincial Election, bumping the former cabinet minister down to third place in the polls.
\n\u201cTonight, you have helped elect the most diverse, capable, hard-working PC caucus that represents all parts of Ontario and\u2026our team, the Progressive Conservative party, has never been better prepared to govern Ontario,\u201d said Ms. Elliott at her victory party, which was attended by campaign co-chairs Lois Brown and Bill Hogg, Newmarket Mayor Tony Van Bynen, and Charity McGrath, the riding\u2019s former PC candidate who was dramatically ousted by Doug Ford shortly after he secured leadership, citing irregularities in her campaign.
\nMs. Elliott then congratulated her fellow candidates on a hard-fought campaign.
\n\u201cI will always have respect and admiration for anybody who puts their name forward for public office,\u201d she said.
\nAddressing Premier-elect Doug Ford, Ms. Elliott said he will \u201clead our province with courage and conviction\u201d to \u201cget Ontario back on track,\u201d as will, she said, the roster of returning and newly-elected MPPs in the new PC majority government.
\nMs. Elliott was joined at the podium by her three sons, triplets, she shared with her late husband Jim Flaherty. Turning to them, she hailed the home team.
\n\u201cWe have been through a lot these past few years, but I think more than anyone knows, you are my strength, my courage, my rock, and I am so proud to be your mom.\u201d
\nShe is also proud, she added, that the people of Newmarket-Aurora elected her to represent their interests at Queen\u2019s Park. To supporters, she said she and the PC team are \u201cready to bring real change to Ontario.\u201d
\n\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,\u201d she said. \u201cI am trying to feed my children, clothe them, pay my hydro bill and it is becoming impossible. Or outside, I\u2019ve heard I can\u2019t get my mother into a long-term care home and I can\u2019t get a family doctor for her. Do you know what else they said to me? They said, \u2018Will you listen?\u2019 Such an honest, simple request. Here\u2019s my answer to them, to all of you tonight, to everyone in Newmarket-Aurora: yes, we are listening. Yes, we hear you, and yes, help is on the way.
\n\u201cWe know that for too long the government has not listened. For too long, we have had a government that thinks better than you do; a government that would rather fight with doctors and nurses than fix our healthcare system, a government that would rather drive up hydro rates than make life more affordable. For 15 years, four elections and a debt that has grown so tremendously that interest payments on that debt are the third largest expense in government after health care and education \u2013 it is a shame, but I can tell you that that out of control spending is stopping right now.\u201d
\nThe new PC government, she said, will oppose any \u201cany measure that makes life more unaffordable for Ontarians.\u201d Taxes will be cut, innovation will be the key to protecting environment over taxation, hydro bills will come down and Ontario\u2019s \u201cbroken\u201d health care system\u201d will be fixed with reduced wait times and doctors and nurses will be shown the \u201crespect they deserve,\u201d she said.
\n\u201cWe are going to lead Ontario to the place where we belong, a place of opportunity, of jobs, of prosperity, a place of compassion for everybody of every background and for every walk of life; a place of hope where our young people can find jobs, good, better jobs, right here at home in Ontario and where all of us can fulfil our dreams. With your help today, we have returned Ontario to the people,\u201d she concluded.
\nMs. Elliott, who faced criticism from her fellow candidates and members of opposing parties for being a candidate parachuted into the riding with no real roots in the community told The Auroran after her election victory that now that the deal is sealed, she is looking to plant those roots right now.
\n\u201cI do plan to get a home in Newmarket-Aurora,\u201d she said. \u201cI have looked at some listings, but I didn\u2019t want to get ahead of myself, but I definitely will be buying a place here.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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