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Cabinet minister Marie-France Lalonde held onto the seat she won by a landslide four years ago by a far slimmer margin Thursday night as a Tory blue flooded the province.
Supporters of Lalonde, the minister of francophone affairs and community safety and correctional services, gathered at Mouvement d’Implication Francophone d’Orléans were jubilant as she was declared re-elected and several other local MPPs held their seats
Lalonde herself, who had still not appeared after 10 p.m., had faced some formidable competition in the race to June 7 in the redrawn riding now called simply Orléans.
As of 10 p.m., Elections Ontario pegged Lalonde’s share of the vote at 39.68 per cent, Progressive Conservative Cameron Montgomery at 33.69 per cent and the NDP’s Barbara Zarboni at 22.48 per cent.
Montgomery had not yet spoken to supporters, but Zarboni told supporters gathered at her home in the riding not to lose hope.
“I want to say what you saw here tonight was the kitchen table not the boardroom table,” Barbara Zarboni said. “We are the people who live here and change will come for the better.
“I am appalled that Doug Ford won. He has so many scandals and baggage, and people still think he is a man of the people.”
“In four years they’ll be whining about what they did here tonight, and we’ll be there to help them,” she added later. “This is how the revolution begins”
Lalonde won what was then Ottawa-Orléans by 54 per cent landslide four years ago and the rookie MPP quickly went from running a retirement home to holding a pair of cabinet portfolios.
She promised on behalf of the government to build a bigger, better version of the crowded and troubled Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre on Innes Road, which is in her riding. She touted provincial LRT funding and five new schools for her riding and was also on hand at the announcement of the plan to add 128 long-term care beds for francophone seniors to the east-end Montfort Hospital.
Montgomery a bilingual longtime University of Ottawa education professor researching subjects including school stress and ADHD said he spent much of his career working to improve the province’s education system and that he’d be “a fighter so that Orléans families can pay less and get ahead.”
Zarboni, a retired financial planner, vowed to help reate new child care centres and spaces as her party pledged free childcare for low-income families and $12 a day spaces for most others.
Also contesting the election were Green Party candidate Nicholas Lapierre, Libertarian Gerald Bourdeau and Independent candidate Samuel Schwisberg.
Lapierre said he ran to spark political debate and engagement. He’s spent 12 years working at his alma mater, Algonquin College, most recently helping students with the financial challenges of going to school, and says he wants to promote small business as a way to support people while protecting the environment.
Schwisberg, a long-time Conservative who served as general counsel of the Canadian Red Cross Society ran as an independent largely espousing the party’s previous platform under Patrick Brown, saying that under Doug Ford it’s “moved too far to the right on social issues and are winging it on fiscal issues.”
Bourdeau ran for the Ontario Libertarian Party, whose vision is “People prospering in peaceful freedom through private property protection.”
— With files from Alanna Smith and Micaal Ahmed
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Supporters of Lalonde, the minister of francophone affairs and community safety and correctional services, gathered at Mouvement d’Implication Francophone d’Orléans were jubilant as she was declared re-elected and several other local MPPs held their seats
Lalonde herself, who had still not appeared after 10 p.m., had faced some formidable competition in the race to June 7 in the redrawn riding now called simply Orléans.
As of 10 p.m., Elections Ontario pegged Lalonde’s share of the vote at 39.68 per cent, Progressive Conservative Cameron Montgomery at 33.69 per cent and the NDP’s Barbara Zarboni at 22.48 per cent.
Montgomery had not yet spoken to supporters, but Zarboni told supporters gathered at her home in the riding not to lose hope.
“I want to say what you saw here tonight was the kitchen table not the boardroom table,” Barbara Zarboni said. “We are the people who live here and change will come for the better.
“I am appalled that Doug Ford won. He has so many scandals and baggage, and people still think he is a man of the people.”
“In four years they’ll be whining about what they did here tonight, and we’ll be there to help them,” she added later. “This is how the revolution begins”
Lalonde won what was then Ottawa-Orléans by 54 per cent landslide four years ago and the rookie MPP quickly went from running a retirement home to holding a pair of cabinet portfolios.
She promised on behalf of the government to build a bigger, better version of the crowded and troubled Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre on Innes Road, which is in her riding. She touted provincial LRT funding and five new schools for her riding and was also on hand at the announcement of the plan to add 128 long-term care beds for francophone seniors to the east-end Montfort Hospital.
Montgomery a bilingual longtime University of Ottawa education professor researching subjects including school stress and ADHD said he spent much of his career working to improve the province’s education system and that he’d be “a fighter so that Orléans families can pay less and get ahead.”
Zarboni, a retired financial planner, vowed to help reate new child care centres and spaces as her party pledged free childcare for low-income families and $12 a day spaces for most others.
Also contesting the election were Green Party candidate Nicholas Lapierre, Libertarian Gerald Bourdeau and Independent candidate Samuel Schwisberg.
Lapierre said he ran to spark political debate and engagement. He’s spent 12 years working at his alma mater, Algonquin College, most recently helping students with the financial challenges of going to school, and says he wants to promote small business as a way to support people while protecting the environment.
Schwisberg, a long-time Conservative who served as general counsel of the Canadian Red Cross Society ran as an independent largely espousing the party’s previous platform under Patrick Brown, saying that under Doug Ford it’s “moved too far to the right on social issues and are winging it on fiscal issues.”
Bourdeau ran for the Ontario Libertarian Party, whose vision is “People prospering in peaceful freedom through private property protection.”
— With files from Alanna Smith and Micaal Ahmed
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