{"id":24420,"date":"2019-08-08T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24420"},"modified":"2019-08-08T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:08:34","slug":"local-liberals-to-pick-candidate-saturday-for-auroras-south-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/local-liberals-to-pick-candidate-saturday-for-auroras-south-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Liberals to pick candidate Saturday for Aurora\u2019s south riding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Local Liberals are set to gather in Oak Ridges this\nSaturday to pick their Federal candidate for Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Chamberlain and Leah Taylor Roy are the two\ncandidates vying for the position, which has been vacant since last September\nfollowing the decision of incumbent MP Leona Alleslev to cross the floor to the\nfederal Conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Chamberlain was the first candidate to throw his hat\ninto the ring. A resident of the riding, he is an entrepreneur who provides\nadvice for businesses and other organizations spearhead change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI made the final decision [to enter the race] in early\nFebruary and what influenced it was I want to have this seat go back to the\nLiberal side,\u201d Mr. Chamberlain tells The Auroran. \u201cI think floor crossing\nbreaks a fundamental bond with voters and I believe we have to have a\ngovernment that is committed to taking action for climate change. I don\u2019t\nbelieve anything else is acceptable for my children and the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy perspective is we\u2019re a highly entrepreneurial,\nwell-to-do riding within Canada. I think we\u2019re a lot more influential than we\nmight think we are because we\u2019re a swing riding and I think that one of the choices\nwe\u2019re going to have this fall is: do we want to delay, at potentially very high\nrisk, any kind of a conversion to an economy that better represents our\nenvironmental perspective and our new environmental values, or are we going to\ndelay that or take it head-on? I think if we want to take it head-on as\nentrepreneurs, I have a lot to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Chamberlain says he believes government can provide\nsupport and incentive to business where it makes sense, but ultimate change,\nemployment and economic success has to come from the people. The government, he\nsays, \u201chas to have your back but it really shouldn\u2019t be in your face.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy view would be to work with the small and mid-sized\nemployers and companies around the riding and work with them on how they can\nbest expand, how they can best export, and I think when you start looking at\nclean tech and even clean manufacturing, I don\u2019t see any reason why our riding\ncan\u2019t be right at the heart of Canada\u2019s export strategy. It has been, in the\npast, around auto parts and there\u2019s no reason why it can\u2019t continue to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Taylor Roy comes into the\nrace with a similar passion for fighting climate change. A resident of northern\nYork Region, Ms. Taylor is from a political family \u2013 her father, Tom, was\npreviously mayor of Newmarket while her brother, John, is the incumbent \u2013 and,\nas the mother of six, she decided now that her youngest is 18, the time was\nright to \u201cmake a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a critical election\nnot only for domestic reasons but also for global reasons,\u201d says Ms. Taylor\nRoy, who brings her own experience as a business leader, a Masters in Public\nPolicy from Harvard, and background as a lifelong Liberal into the mix. \u201cI\nthink with everything happening in the world right now, to be faced with an\nAndrew Scheer Conservative government with Doug Ford in Ontario and Jason\nKenney in Alberta\u2026it would be disastrous to Canada. I have spent some time in\nthe United States and I saw what happens when you get a divisive president like\nDonald Trump. It\u2019s bad for the country and I just did not want to see the same\nthing happen in Canada. If I can make a difference, if I can help, then I want\nto do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first way she can help,\nshe says, is \u201cbeating Leona Alleslev and help return this riding to the Liberal\nfold.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to help the Liberals\nbecome the government again,\u201d she continues. \u201cThings like climate change is a\nhuge issue and the Conservative platform, at best, is taking us sideways and\nbackwards in many respects. We can\u2019t afford that. With increased flooding, there\nis a lot municipalities have to do and the Provincial government isn\u2019t being\nparticularly cooperative with municipalities right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe economy is the best it\nhas been in 40 years in many, many respects, but there is still more to do and\nI think the Trudeau Liberals know that. There is work for us to do, in terms of\nespecially our youth, and ensuring with all the cutbacks in funding for\neducation, we try to help as much as the Federal government can, to ensure that\nyoung Canadians have the opportunities to get the training they need to be part\nof the evolving economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill Federal Liberal Riding Association will hold its nomination meeting this Saturday, August 10, from 2 \u2013 5 p.m. at the Bond Lake Arena, located at 70 Old Colony Road, Richmond Hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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