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Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi got served in his home riding of Ottawa Centre in Thursday’s provincial election as voters ousted the Liberal incumbent and gave the NDP a shot at representing the national capital’s core at Queen’s Park.
The NDP’s Joel Harden cruised to victory, taking 46 per cent of the vote with late polls still to report on Thursday.
A jubilant Harden arrived to a City Centre warehouse space soon after polls closed and was immediately enveloped in the excited embrace of his wife Clare Roscoe and the couple’s two children, Adele and Emery.
Harden told the crowd of several hundred supporters his campaign began months ago in a backyard on Bellwood Avenue, where a group of people came together because they were, “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
He acknowledged his political mentors Jack Layton and Olivia Chow, and thanked Algonquin elder Claudette Commanda for offering an official welcome to the traditional Indigenous territory.
He also recognized the hard work of Naqvi.
“We are going to continue that level of hard work because the people of Ottawa Centre are used to people working hard,” Harden said.
Naqvi arrived at the Carleton Tavern to cheers, led by Liberal MP Catherine McKenna.
“This has been the most remarkable 10 years of my life,” Naqvi said at the Hintonburg tavern, where earlier in the night supporters stood silent when TV broadcasts declared a PC majority government.
Liberal MPP Yasir Naqvi gives a speech at the Carleton Tavern with his wife Christine McMillan after losing the Ottawa Centre riding to the NDP’s Joel Harden, in Ottawa on June 7, 2018.
The PC candidate in the riding was management consultant Colleen McCleery, who came in third place.
The NDP faced an uphill battle out of the gate, but Harden’s team attacked the campaign with a decent ground game, managing to get plenty of orange signs at key intersections and on front lawns.
Harden, a researcher with the Canadian Federation of Students who has a PhD in political science, beat economist Angella MacEwen, diplomat Shawn Barber and public school trustee Erica Braunovan for the NDP nomination in Ottawa Centre. Hundreds of party supporters packed the nomination meeting last October, signalling a growing NDP provincial movement in the riding.
During the campaign, Harden’s opponents painted him as a far-left radical, but he described himself as a “democratic socialist.” At one point, he drew the ire of NDP Leader Andrea Horwath when he veered away from the party platform talking points and expressed support for merging public and Catholic school systems.
Ottawa Centre was identified before the campaign as a winnable riding for the NDP, considering the unpopularity of the Liberal government and the growing NDP support in central Ottawa. But the battle was never going to be easy, since the seat had been a Liberal lock for years and the incumbent MPP is generally well-liked, even across party lines.
Naqvi, who immigrated to Canada from Pakistan in 1988, has been Ottawa Centre’s MPP since 2007. Since his first election, Naqvi has climbed his way up through the party ranks, serving in government at different times as minister of community safety and correctional services and minister of labour. He has also been president of the Ontario Liberal Party.
The Liberal incumbent used riding-specific issues to promote his campaign, including the Prince of Wales Bridge and the future Ottawa Hospital Civic campus.
The hospital, planned for the eastern section of the Experimental Farm near Dow’s Lake, is probably the most important infrastructure project in the riding with direct ties to the provincial government.
Also contesting the election were Green Party candidate Cherie Wong, Libertarian Party candidate Bruce Faulkner, Canadians’ Choice Party candidate James Sears, Communist Party candidate Ryan Stuart and None of the Above Party candidate Marc Adornato.
— With files from Matthew Pearson
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The NDP’s Joel Harden cruised to victory, taking 46 per cent of the vote with late polls still to report on Thursday.
A jubilant Harden arrived to a City Centre warehouse space soon after polls closed and was immediately enveloped in the excited embrace of his wife Clare Roscoe and the couple’s two children, Adele and Emery.
Harden told the crowd of several hundred supporters his campaign began months ago in a backyard on Bellwood Avenue, where a group of people came together because they were, “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
He acknowledged his political mentors Jack Layton and Olivia Chow, and thanked Algonquin elder Claudette Commanda for offering an official welcome to the traditional Indigenous territory.
He also recognized the hard work of Naqvi.
“We are going to continue that level of hard work because the people of Ottawa Centre are used to people working hard,” Harden said.
Naqvi arrived at the Carleton Tavern to cheers, led by Liberal MP Catherine McKenna.
“This has been the most remarkable 10 years of my life,” Naqvi said at the Hintonburg tavern, where earlier in the night supporters stood silent when TV broadcasts declared a PC majority government.
Liberal MPP Yasir Naqvi gives a speech at the Carleton Tavern with his wife Christine McMillan after losing the Ottawa Centre riding to the NDP’s Joel Harden, in Ottawa on June 7, 2018.
The PC candidate in the riding was management consultant Colleen McCleery, who came in third place.
The NDP faced an uphill battle out of the gate, but Harden’s team attacked the campaign with a decent ground game, managing to get plenty of orange signs at key intersections and on front lawns.
Harden, a researcher with the Canadian Federation of Students who has a PhD in political science, beat economist Angella MacEwen, diplomat Shawn Barber and public school trustee Erica Braunovan for the NDP nomination in Ottawa Centre. Hundreds of party supporters packed the nomination meeting last October, signalling a growing NDP provincial movement in the riding.
During the campaign, Harden’s opponents painted him as a far-left radical, but he described himself as a “democratic socialist.” At one point, he drew the ire of NDP Leader Andrea Horwath when he veered away from the party platform talking points and expressed support for merging public and Catholic school systems.
Ottawa Centre was identified before the campaign as a winnable riding for the NDP, considering the unpopularity of the Liberal government and the growing NDP support in central Ottawa. But the battle was never going to be easy, since the seat had been a Liberal lock for years and the incumbent MPP is generally well-liked, even across party lines.
Naqvi, who immigrated to Canada from Pakistan in 1988, has been Ottawa Centre’s MPP since 2007. Since his first election, Naqvi has climbed his way up through the party ranks, serving in government at different times as minister of community safety and correctional services and minister of labour. He has also been president of the Ontario Liberal Party.
The Liberal incumbent used riding-specific issues to promote his campaign, including the Prince of Wales Bridge and the future Ottawa Hospital Civic campus.
The hospital, planned for the eastern section of the Experimental Farm near Dow’s Lake, is probably the most important infrastructure project in the riding with direct ties to the provincial government.
Also contesting the election were Green Party candidate Cherie Wong, Libertarian Party candidate Bruce Faulkner, Canadians’ Choice Party candidate James Sears, Communist Party candidate Ryan Stuart and None of the Above Party candidate Marc Adornato.
— With files from Matthew Pearson
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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