{"id":24966,"date":"2019-10-17T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24966"},"modified":"2019-10-22T02:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:53:21","slug":"liberal-leader-blitzes-auroras-ridings-in-final-stretch-of-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/liberal-leader-blitzes-auroras-ridings-in-final-stretch-of-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal leader blitzes Aurora’s ridings in final stretch of campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Hundreds of Liberal supporters took time out of their\nThanksgiving Sunday to welcome Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to Aurora\u2019s two\nFederal ridings in the home stretch of the 2019 Federal Election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In support of Newmarket-Aurora Liberal candidate Tony Van\nBynen, Mr. Trudeau hit Main Street Newmarket, where he was greeted by hundreds\nof supporters in the street. From there, he travelled to Aurora-Oak\nRidges-Richmond Hill to hold a rally with candidate Leah Taylor Roy and\nhundreds of supporters at her campaign office near Yonge Street and King Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the end of a busy week for Aurora\u2019s candidates\nwith several all-candidates debates and countless knocked-on doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vying for the job to represent Newmarket-Aurora in Ottawa\nfollowing the October 21 election are, in alphabetical order, Walter Bauer of\nthe Green Party, Dorian Baxter of the Progressive Canadian Party, Lois Brown of\nthe Conservative Party, Laurie Goble of the Rhinoceros Party, Yvonne Kelly of\nthe NDP, Andrew McCaughtrie of the People\u2019s Party of Canada, and Tony Van Bynen\nof the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the south side of Wellington Street, in the riding of\nAurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill, your candidates are Leona Alleslev of the\nConservative Party, Aaron Brown of the NDP, Timothy Flemming of the Green\nParty, Serge Korovitsyn of the Libertarian Party, Priya Patil of the People\u2019s\nParty, and Leah Taylor Roy of the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 of the 13 candidates made their respective final\npitches to local voters at an all-candidates meet and greet hosted by the\nAurora Public Library on October 8 before advanced polls opened in time for the\nThanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While candidates continued to pound the pavement\nfull-tilt into the holiday weekend, perhaps no candidate took this phrase\nliterally except for Ms. Taylor Roy, who participated in Sunday\u2019s rally\nsporting a large black eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The injury, she explained, took place just a few days\npreviously while meeting with potential voters at the Gormley GO Station in the\nmorning rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was not a Conservative punch,\u201d she joked to\nsupporters over the weekend. \u201cI was out there at 6.15 a.m. \u2026when, in my\nenthusiasm, I tripped on a grate and ended up falling on my face.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe got back up and after a 34-hour concussion watch, we\nwere back on the road working hard,\u201d she continued. \u201cI have a team that just\nwon\u2019t give up. That\u2019s why we are going to win this riding back for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWinning back\u201d the riding was a theme Ms. Taylor Roy\nrevisited in her speech, citing the fact Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill voted\nLiberal in 2015, sending Leona Alleslev to Ottawa as Member of Parliament\nbefore she crossed the floor to the Conservatives last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis riding knows the Liberal Party is the only party that\nis home to people who want to take action on climate change and who want to\nbuild a prosperous future for our country,\u201d said Ms. Taylor Roy, the daughter\nof former Newmarket mayor Tom Taylor and sister of incumbent Mayor John Taylor.\n\u201cIt is one of the reasons I love our leader, because he knows we can do both.\nLike Justin Trudeau, I am doing this because I want to make a difference, not\nbecause of my name. I know that we will make a difference. We will ensure that\nthe Liberals, under Justin Trudeau, will take action on climate change. I know\nthat we will continue to support the Middle Class, not slash programs, and I\nknow that we will finally get gun control in place and stop the violence on the\nstreets. Lastly, we will work hard to ensure that Canada and our world is\ninclusive and welcoming to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These threads were picked up by Mr. Trudeau, who thanked\nsupporters before underscoring the \u201cimportant choice\u201d that is to be made\nOctober 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are facing a very clear choice and that\u2019s why we\nare fighting so hard,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are fighting so hard to stop Conservative\ncuts and elect a Liberal government. We are going to stop Conservative cuts by\nelecting a progressive government, not a progressive opposition, because we\nknow what cuts are waiting for us with a Conservative government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the past four years, we showed what a government\nthat wasn\u2019t afraid to invest in people could deliver. We invested in young\npeople, we invested in seniors, we invested in hard-working families. We stood\nup for Canada around the world, we invested to fight climate change and what\nhappened? Not only did we create the strongest plan to fight climate change\nthat Canada has ever had, but we watched Canadians create over a million new\njobs as we lifted 900,000 people out of poverty. That is the choice facing\nCanadians in a week\u2019s time: Do we continue to move forward, or do we go back to\nthe Harper cuts and austerity?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At press time, Mr. Trudeau was the only one of the four\nmajor party leaders to have visited Aurora\u2019s ridings. For further updates\nthrough the home stretch of the Federal campaign, visit www.theauroran.com.<\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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