{"id":24994,"date":"2019-10-18T19:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24994"},"modified":"2019-10-18T19:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:02:55","slug":"liberal-leah-taylor-roy-wants-to-continue-making-difference-in-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/liberal-leah-taylor-roy-wants-to-continue-making-difference-in-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Leah Taylor Roy wants to continue making difference in community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

From part-time work to finance her education and,\nfollowing Harvard, working in the banking industry, Leah Taylor Roy says her\nexperiences have helped her understand what people need to get ahead \u2013 and it\nis this experience she hopes to bring to the table should the residents of\nAurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill send her to Ottawa next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Taylor Roy, who secured\nthe Federal Liberal nomination this summer, says being a Liberal, to her, means\nan environment that is \u201copen to ideas, open to people, inclusive and caring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think Liberal values\nare the values that we want to move forward with in order to make sure Canada\nis a caring country,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is not just about me or the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere you stand depends\non where you sit,\u201d says the mom-of-six, noting that the issues she sees on the\nminds of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill residents vary with each door she\nknocks on. That being said, three key issues are rising to the top: the\neconomy, affordability, and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberal track record\non the economy, she says, is \u201cvery strong\u201d with over one million new jobs\ncreated and the lowest unemployment rate in 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are a lot of\nthings the Liberals have done very well and I think people are aware of that\nand appreciate that, but at the same time there have been a lot of cutbacks in\nthe Province: the cutbacks to health services, to education, to seniors, people\nare feeling those things and I think there is a nervousness about what is going\nto happen going forward,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Affordability,\nparticularly when it comes to housing, is a \u201cbig issue\u201d in the Region and\nparticularly impactful on seniors, she says. The Liberal Party has worked to\nincrease CPP benefits for seniors, rolling back OAS from 67 to 65, as well as\nrolling out new initiatives along the campaign trail that address increases for\nboth OAS and survivor benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the issue of the\nenvironment, Ms. Taylor Roy says there are people who are concerned not just\nabout what Canada is doing, but what \u201cwe can do\u201d moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think they are looking\nto the Liberal party because the Liberal party has the most actionable and affordable\nplan in place,\u201d she says. \u201cI think the things that they have done already in\nterms of trying to ensure that our green spaces are protected, and our marine\nspaces as well, is important. I think the ban on single use plastics that has\nbeen announced is important, and I think the price on pollution is actually\nsupported by a number of people, the fact that we have to look at what the full\ncost of everything we do is, not just the cost to our pocketbook \u2013 what it is\nreally costing us as a society and then using the proceeds from that to develop\ngreen technologies to figure out how to develop more carbon sinks; we know tree\nplanting is a huge thing, but there are other ways we can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting a \u201cprice on\npollution\u201d was an election issue even before the writ was dropped earlier this\nmonth, with the governing Liberals promoting the issue with that term, with\nopponents, particularly the Conservatives, dubbing it a \u201ccarbon tax.\u201d No matter\nthe semantics, Ms. Taylor Roy says when she faces questions about the matter\nwhen door-knocking, she tries to underscore that \u201cthe price on pollution is\ndesigned to try and influence our behaviour, to have people think more about\nwhat they are doing when they make a purchase that has environmental impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is not simply a price\nto be paid on a punitive thing, rather [it is to] try and change behaviour,\u201d\nshe contends. \u201cMost families will be getting a rebate that equals the price\nthey are paying for pollution. It is still the best mechanism to influence our\nbehaviour and we all need to change our behaviours in order to meet our\nenvironmental goals. I try to talk to them about the fact that the price on\npollution is being incorporated into the price we pay is important so that we\nare making choices based on true costs and not just the manufactured cost of\nsomething. I also try to talk to people about our future generations, that\nthese issues are bigger than just our pocket book and it is really about what\nkind of Canada we want: do we want to be a leader when it comes to the climate\nchange crisis? We need to generate revenue to invest more into alternative\nforms of energy and more research and to make Canada a leader in the field\nwhere we can export these technologies and help others, also just to set that\nexample.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help bring about this\nchange, one of the biggest skills she says she brings to the table is her\n\u201ctotal life experience\u201d where \u201ccaring about people\u201d was fundamental every step\nof the way. Her father, a former Mayor of Newmarket, imparted in her the value of\ncommunity service and building her own career from the ground up has given her\na firm understanding of \u201cthe hard work and people in our riding trying to work\nto get ahead, to succeed. It takes hard work, but it also takes opportunity in\na fair playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think there has been a number of reasons for that, but\nI think the issues of childcare, reproductive rights, health care, pay equity,\nof making it so that women have equal opportunities that that they can function\nand be productive members of society to the same extent is important and I\nthink those are things we can still work on,\u201d she says. \u201cThe Liberal government\nhas a good track record and it is something I want to see happen even more.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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