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The election battle in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke hadn’t looked like much of a horserace for the first two months or more of the campaign, with Conservative candidate Cheryl Gallant leading comfortably in polls as she appeared headed for her sixth straight mandate.
Even the bona fides of her two main challengers, Liberal Jeff Lehoux and Independent Hec Clouthier, were having little effect. Lehoux, a former Canadian Forces soldier, was expected to carry much of the military vote, not a small battalion considering that Garrison Petawawa is in the riding.
Clouthier, meanwhile, was the region’s last MP before Gallant ended 65 years of Liberal rule. A favourite of Jean Chretien’s, Clouthier, who died politically on his own party’s gun registry legislation in 2000, had run twice before in the riding as an Independent, finishing second on each occasion with close to 10,000 votes.
But Gallant had very nearly run a controversy-free campaign this time out, declining most invitations to all-candidates meetings and debates, and managing to avoid, until the home stretch, the sorts of gaffes that have all too frequently earned her the reputation as one of the country’s most cringe-inducing MPs.
Ten days ago, though, the wheels on her election bus began to fall off, or at least rub a number of voters the wrong way.
Appearing not to agree with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s view that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, Gallant was caught electioneering , uninvited and without permission, in residents’ rooms at Renfrew’s Bonnechere Manor, a long-term care home, in violation of Elections Canada’s rules. She was asked to leave.
Five days later, she ran an ad in the North Renfrew Times and other Valley papers in which she promised to “save Canada Post,” and used the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ Save Canada Post logo to back that claim — without the union’s permission — adding that the Conservative plan to end home mail delivery will not result in any job losses. CUPW launched an official complaint with Elections Canada.
We’ll know soon enough whether Gallant and her Tory party are popular enough in RNP to withstand these self-inflicted injuries. Recent polls give her about 43 per cent support among decided voters, compared to second- and third-place challengers Lehoux and Clouthier, with roughly 24 and 20 per cent respectively. And while Gallant’s support may be the lowest it’s been since she first won the seat in 2000 (with 44 per cent of the vote), it’s still an envious amount, and higher than any Conservative candidate in the Ottawa area.
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Even the bona fides of her two main challengers, Liberal Jeff Lehoux and Independent Hec Clouthier, were having little effect. Lehoux, a former Canadian Forces soldier, was expected to carry much of the military vote, not a small battalion considering that Garrison Petawawa is in the riding.
Clouthier, meanwhile, was the region’s last MP before Gallant ended 65 years of Liberal rule. A favourite of Jean Chretien’s, Clouthier, who died politically on his own party’s gun registry legislation in 2000, had run twice before in the riding as an Independent, finishing second on each occasion with close to 10,000 votes.
But Gallant had very nearly run a controversy-free campaign this time out, declining most invitations to all-candidates meetings and debates, and managing to avoid, until the home stretch, the sorts of gaffes that have all too frequently earned her the reputation as one of the country’s most cringe-inducing MPs.
Ten days ago, though, the wheels on her election bus began to fall off, or at least rub a number of voters the wrong way.
Appearing not to agree with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s view that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, Gallant was caught electioneering , uninvited and without permission, in residents’ rooms at Renfrew’s Bonnechere Manor, a long-term care home, in violation of Elections Canada’s rules. She was asked to leave.
Five days later, she ran an ad in the North Renfrew Times and other Valley papers in which she promised to “save Canada Post,” and used the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ Save Canada Post logo to back that claim — without the union’s permission — adding that the Conservative plan to end home mail delivery will not result in any job losses. CUPW launched an official complaint with Elections Canada.
We’ll know soon enough whether Gallant and her Tory party are popular enough in RNP to withstand these self-inflicted injuries. Recent polls give her about 43 per cent support among decided voters, compared to second- and third-place challengers Lehoux and Clouthier, with roughly 24 and 20 per cent respectively. And while Gallant’s support may be the lowest it’s been since she first won the seat in 2000 (with 44 per cent of the vote), it’s still an envious amount, and higher than any Conservative candidate in the Ottawa area.
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