Three people are going to represent the city in Ottawa - who are they and where are those three races going?

Fed election logoBy Pepper Parr

October 17th, 2015

BURLINGTON, ON

The city is represented by three MP’s in the House of Commons. Lisa Raitt represents Milton, which covers much of the northern part of the city; Mike Wallace represents Burlington; that constituency had a portion of its eastern side cut off and made into what is known as Oakville Burlington North

Mini Batra Milton

Mini Batra _ Green Party – Milton

Lisa Raitt Milton

Lisa Raitt – Conservative – Milton

Chris Jewell Libertarian Milton

Chris Jewell – Libertarian Milton

Alex Ananmbusi  MILTON

Alex Ananmbusi – New Democrat – Milton

In Milton, Lisa Raitt, the Conservative incumbent, is being challenged by Azim Rizvee (Liberal party), Alex Anabusi (NDP), Chris Jewell (Libertarian Party) and Mini Batra (Green Party).

CFUW Gould with voter

Karina Gould – Liberal – Burlington

Wallace at Memex

Mike Wallace – Conservative – Burlington

Vince Fitorio

Vince Fiorito – Green Party – Burlington

Laird David

David Laird – New Democrat – Burlington

In Burlington incumbent Mike Wallace is being challenged by Liberal Karina Gould, New Democrat David Laird and Green Party candidate Vince Fiorito.

Oakville North Burlington is a brand new riding that got off to a wobbly start when the Conservatives fighting for the nomination behaved so badly that the party told them all to go home and held a nomination meeting which chose Effie Triantafilopoulos. Pam Damoff was chosen as the Liberal candidate but only after the untimely death of Max Khan. Janice Best represents the New Democratic Party; David Clement is running for the Liber-tarian Party of Canada and Adnan Shahbaz is running for the Green Party of Canada

There is the possibility that the city of Burlington could be represented by woman. Lisa Raitt has a decent lead in Milton, but not as strong a lead as one would expect from a Cabinet Minister, Pam Damoff is leading in the new riding of Oakville Burlington North. Karina Gould is struggling to defeat Mike Wallace.

In the event of a really really poor showing by the Conservatives one can expect Prime Minister Harper to find himself out of a job – he will either retire or the party will choose a new leader. In both scenarios expect Lisa Raitt to be in any leadership race.

Adnan Shahbaz

Adnan Shahbaz – Green Party – Oakville North Burlington

Damoff with big wide open smiles

Pam Damoff – Liberal – Oakville North Burlington

Janice Best

Janice Best – New Democrat – Oakville North Burlington

David Clement - Libertarian

David Clement – Libertarian – Oakville Burlington North

Triantafilopoulos

Effie Triantafilopoulos – Oakville North Burlington – Conservative

In Oakville Burlington North Damoff is well ahead and should find herself back in Ottawa where she once worked with different Cabinet Ministers. Damoff herself may not be Cabinet material but she will serve the interests of the people in the riding – she is a very considerate caring person who seems to have tear ducts that flow easily.

In Burlington Karina Gould is in a tough tough fight. The polls, for what they are worth, show her further behind Wallace than she expected. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has visited the riding in the past but has not been seen during the hurley burley of the election.
And Liberal MPP Eleanor McMahon, who showed that the riding was capable of becoming a red riding after more than 70 years of Tory blue, has not been as evident at the doorsteps as Gould needs.

The MPP’s brother Ed McMahon is the chair of the Damoff campaign but it may take something from Trudeau and more from the MPP to get Gould into the House of Commons.

While the national results won’t be known until votes are counted in British Columbia – the decisions for Burlington will become evident pretty quickly – the real wrestling will be between Mike Wallace and Karina Gould.

 

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