Federal NDP candidates 2015 part 2

terrytowel wrote:

If Sheila were to return to politics, she could BEAT any NDP candidate in Hamilton (including Andrea Horwath) without breaking a sweat or even campaiging for one day. She could put her name on the ballot, go on vacation and still win by double digits over any NDP candidate.

They don't call Sheila Copps the original steeltown scrapper for nothing!

tt, have you ever been to Hamilton? Have you ever met anyone who lives in Hamilton? Your opinion here certainly indicates that you haven't.

sherpa-finn wrote:

And the only way Sheila could ever get her name on the ballot would be to run as an Independent.  It was the Liberals who chased her out of Hamilton ... and then made sure she would never get her nose back in with the National Party.  Persona non grata, big time. 

That's a bit of an over generalization there.  It was Paul Martin who drove Copps out of Hamilton.  Not Liberals as a whole.  Many Liberals disliked it.  I voted NDP that year in protest.  In 2004 I was in Ottawa Centre, so I supported Ed Broadbent. (something I posted about back in 2009 when I arrived here).

And Sheila Copps almost won the Presidency of the Liberal Party 2 years ago.  She only lost to Mike Crawley by about 25 votes.  Copps isn't interested in going back into electoral politics, but I don't think Trudeau would try to stop her if she wanted to.  Copps endorsed Trudeau a couple of years ago, and as far as I know they are on good terms.

Here's a photo of Copps with Trudeau when she endorsed him:

https://storify.com/thespec/justin-trudeau-lunches-on-locke-street

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And here's Copps on Twitter in 2013:

Yes, I am supporting Justin.

https://twitter.com/sheila_copps/status/300384409549430784

terrytowel wrote:

adma wrote:

terrytowel wrote:

But the NDP can take comfort that Olivia Chow dominated Parkdale-High Park in the mayor's race.

No.  She.  Didn't. 

And I'm flabbergasted that you'd still be spouting this nonsense after I posted this in the polling thread...

Did I say she won Parkdale-High Park? I said

"But the NDP can take comfort that Olivia Chow dominated Parkdale-High Park in the mayor's race."

She pulled in strong numbers and came within striking distance of winning that riding.

Dominating means "have a commanding influence on" as voters in that area rallied to Chow, but she still came up short.

Which bodes well for the NDP in that riding.

Somehow, it still sounds like you're trying to self-rationalize your way out of a paper bag.  (And besides: never mind that it's her home riding, but Chow winning the Trinity-Spadina wards in toto technically couldn't have been foreseen by the provincial + fed byelection results earlier last year.)

I mean, yes: generically speaking, Chow doing well bodes well.  But by your barometer, she performed "dominatingly" virtually *everywhere* in the former City of Toronto south of Bloor/Dupont-ish--PHP isn't alone on that count.  (And such "domination" is simply the token expression of how, contrary to common presumption, she actually *outperformed* in a citywide race where she was "supposed" to be, in the end, marginalized a la Joe Pants on behalf of a stop-Ford pro-Tory united bloc.)

Yeah, it's ironic how the more NDP-partisan (yet realistic) among us are actually more cautious about unreservedly blowing the Peggy Nash horn--and it's not about her, it's about things potentially beyond her control; indeed, the fact that John Tory outpolled the "dominating" Chow even here could be argued as boding potentially well for the Grits, who have a *much* longer history of federal electability to boast of here.  And yes, the present Grit candidate may be a "no-name"--but then again, so was Han Dong vs Marchese.  (Now, the one way the Libs can *really* blow it is to defy Justin and demographics and go back to the future and nominate a "Stan Haidasz socon", as if the Polish-Canadian voting bloc still dominated the way it used to.)

NDP considers replacing MP Pierre Jacob (Brome-Missisquoi):

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Le député Pierre Jacob pourrait être remplacé

le 24 février 2015

http://www.lerefletdulac.com/Actualites/Politique/2015-02-24/article-405...

Mathew Rowlinson was elected yesterday as the NDP candidate in London West. He is an English Prof at Western. This is considered a fairly secure Con seat, currently held by Ed Holder.

sherpa-finn wrote:

Mathew Rowlinson was elected yesterday as the NDP candidate in London West. He is an English Prof at Western. This is considered a fairly secure Con seat, currently held by Ed Holder.

That's what was said about London West provincially until the by-electon in 2013, when Peggy Statler won the riding, and then held it for the NDP in the 2014 provincial election.

What was scummy was trotwood making a sexist attack on Melanie Joly on another thread.  Which Meg B. has now addressed.

This whole sexual harassment controversy, like everything else between the Liberals & NDP, ends up descending into arguing and name-calling.

Who knows what Mulcair's motivation was?  You don't know.  And I don't know, either.  So let's stop pretending we do.

The point is that Mulcair's response was confusing and contradictory and he didn't clearly articulate what his position on the issue was.  What I was trying to say is that Trudeau took a strong stand against sexual harassment in the workplace in the year 2014 and that clarity came through.

Mulcair's response was confused.  Chantal Hébert explains it here (It's in the first few minutes of this 'At Issue')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuwpboMZMDk

sherpa-finn wrote:

Yesterday in Weyburn, Vicky O'dell was selected NDP candidate for the riding of Souris - Moose Mountain, in south east Saskatchewan. This is another secure Con riding since forever. The incumbent (Ed Komarnicki) has stepped down and the Cons had a highly contested nomination battle for this one last November.  (Sinecure for life....)

ETA: And there are 4 more NDP nomination meetings today.

Kiefer Sutherland unveils Tommy Douglas statue TV star in Weyburn, Sask., for monument dedicated to grandfather

Yes, I do think Simon-Pierre Landry's video is very strong.  As other people have noted, he has a Kathleen Wynne type moment in there that shows him jogging in the outdoors.

Strong images & vision comes across.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1059889940693795

Thread drift alert: Jan corrected me above when I suggested that the Weyburn area had been Conservative 'since forever', by pointing out quite correctly that Weyburn was of course Tommy Douglas's home and first federal seat back in the 1940s, before he turned his attention to provincial politics. Good catch.

Of course, I am inclined to suggest that if the last time a progressive won a seat was under the CCF banner, - and in the sixty intervening years even the Libs have only held it once, fleetingly, - well, this is pretty much a Conservative stronghold in my books. 

For those wondering, - when TC Douglas returned to federal politics at the head of the NDP in the 1960s, he was first defeated in Saskatchewan before winning in Burnaby, BC and then subsequently in Nanaimo. 

And a big shindig in Toronto Centre where Linda McQuaig is in the process of being nominated as I write. #GoLinda!

And I see that in Winipeg North, Levy Abad will be running for the NDP against Arthur's favourite Liberal, the incumbent MP Kevin Lamoureux.

Any pithy observations on that race, Mr Cramer?

sherpa-finn wrote:

And I see that in Winipeg North, Levy Abad will be running for the NDP against Arthur's favourite Liberal, the incumbent MP Kevin Lamoureux.

Any pithy observations on that race, Mr Cramer?

David Akin & Pundits guide has pegged the riding to stay Liberal.

Kevin Lamoureux is very popular with residents, and one of the few Western Liberals to hang on to their seats.

If he could survive the orange waves, he can fight off the NDP this October.

Linda McQuaig was nominated by acclamation today in Toronto Centre. There was an entusiastic crowd of about 300. She came out swinging at Harper and right-wing Liberal candidate Bill Morneau, parachuted in from the Bridle Path.

sherpa-finn wrote:

And I see that in Winipeg North, Levy Abad will be running for the NDP against Arthur's favourite Liberal, the incumbent MP Kevin Lamoureux.

Any pithy observations on that race, Mr Cramer?

I'm not Art, but I'm not expecting a real race, I'm expecting Lameroux to take this riding again quite handily.

nicky wrote:

Linda McQuaig was nominated by acclamation today in Toronto Centre. There was an entusiastic crowd of about 300. She came out swinging at Harper and right-wing Liberal candidate Bill Morneau, parachuted in from the Bridle Path.

Slumming it, is he?

tducey1 wrote:

Yes, Lamoreux's a decent candidate, perhaps a minister from Manitoba should trudeau win government?

Keep in mind that Lamoreux is a notorious anti-abortion fanatic.

He may be willing to swallow his beliefs in order to avoid expulsion from the Liberal caucus - but Lamoureux has a long history of ties to the so caled "pro-life" movement - so as far I'm concerned he's still a jerk

Marc-Andre Morin, NDP MP for Laurentides-Labelle has lost the nomination to be the NDP candiate in the next election.  Dr. Landry looks like a strong candidate, but the article indictes that Mr. Morin was very upset and will consider all of his options.  It can be messy, but this is what genuine open nominations look like.

http://www.linformationdunordsainteagathe.ca/2015/03/01/le-depute-morin-...

The date for the South Shore-St. Margaret's NDP nomination meeting has been set for Sunday, April 12th at the Italy Cross Fire Hall, 17722 Hwy 103, Lunenburg Co.

There are two seeking the nomination:  Courtney Wentzell, the Constituency Assistant to provincial NDP member for Queen-Shelburne Sterling Beliveau, and Alex Godbold, a teacher from New Germany, Lunenburg Co.

Georgina Jolibois has announced she will run in Desnethe - Missinippi - Churchill River

An interesting race is shaping up for. the NDP nomination in Ville Marie etc. with the vote set for March 29.

Incumbent Tyrone Benskin is being challenged by Vincent H'Erthier and Allison Turner who looks very impressive:

https://www.facebook.com/allisonturnerNPD/timeline?ref=page_internal

It seems that the NDP is attracting a number of prestigious new candidates in Quebec with several incumbents stepping aside or being challenged for renomination.

scott16 wrote:

greyscale wrote:

Georgina Jolibois has announced she will run in Desnethe - Missinippi - Churchill River

Do you have any articles or sites that say this?

I couldn't find any but maybe none have been released yet. I'm just curious is all?

I'll answer my own question.

http://mbcradio.com/index.php/mbc-news/14716-la-loche-mayor-announces-in...

Here's a seat that the NDP might gain from the Conservatives.

Federal election: Cranbrook’s Wayne Stetski announces NDP candidacy for Kootenay–Columbia

Former Cranbrook mayor Wayne Stetski has declared his candidacy for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the riding of Kootenay–Columbia in the fall federal election.

By Aaron Orlando - Mar 4, 2015Wayne Stetski will seek election for the NDP in the riding of Kootenay–Columbia in the federal election expected in October. Photo: Contributed by the NDP Kootenay–Columbia Riding Association

“Since his election in 2011, David Wilks has been heard saying he is not allowed to vote the way his constituents want him to in parliament. He can only vote the way Stephen Harper tells him to, even when his constituents tell him that they strongly disagree,” Stetski said in a statement. “Democracy is poorly served by silencing a whole region in this way. The people of Kootenay–Columbia deserve better.”

http://revelstokemountaineer.com/federal-election-cranbrooks-wayne-stets...

NorthReport wrote:

Here's a seat that the NDP might gain from the Conservatives.

Federal election: Cranbrook’s Wayne Stetski announces NDP candidacy for Kootenay–Columbia

Former Cranbrook mayor Wayne Stetski has declared his candidacy for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the riding of Kootenay–Columbia in the fall federal election.

By Aaron Orlando - Mar 4, 2015Wayne Stetski will seek election for the NDP in the riding of Kootenay–Columbia in the federal election expected in October. Photo: Contributed by the NDP Kootenay–Columbia Riding Association

“Since his election in 2011, David Wilks has been heard saying he is not allowed to vote the way his constituents want him to in parliament. He can only vote the way Stephen Harper tells him to, even when his constituents tell him that they strongly disagree,” Stetski said in a statement. “Democracy is poorly served by silencing a whole region in this way. The people of Kootenay–Columbia deserve better.”

http://revelstokemountaineer.com/federal-election-cranbrooks-wayne-stets...

Can anyone with knowledge of BC interior politics give me some info on Mr. Stetski? How well known is he?