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Rae's decision didn't seem to get a warm reception from Liberals on twitter. It will be interesting to see what the grassroots will think of him, what has he really done in the last year?

Bob's an idiot.

Numbers aren't looking good for Dexter if he's planning on heading to the polls this Fall. http://cra.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/12-2-NS-Media-Release.pdf

APPEALED!

I guess we'll wait for his response on why he decided to have a 300,000 mortgage instead of a $58,000 one.

Well that was nice of him, so why did he decide not to help others live there after the media found out he was living in the co-op?

We'll find out in the next 24 hours I guess.

So he lived in housing that someone of low income could have lived in for a lot less then what he was paying?

That explains why he probably did it then but what about the other 10 times?

So Jack Layton lived in social housing and Tom Mulcair can't pay off a little mortgage, interesting.

We're not going to agree on this so there's not much sense to comment on it further. According to you there won't be a by-election anyways.

I figured the Liberals could have won with a George Smitherman. The Liberals were poorly organized in Toronto Danforth and should have been able to perform better and take votes from the NDP. They still increased their share of the vote though.

Punked says that the NDP shouldn't be expected to gain support in the riding, despite their support in Ontario being up a fair bit, because they haven't been competitive their before and because the household income is high. I think they should be expected to gain in support beyond their 15% in the riding because they hold neighboring ones and won over 20% in the two other Etobicoke ridings. I said that any Dipper would try to downplay their chances in the riding after the Forum Research poll showed them at 14%.

Nobody would have expected the NDP to be competitive in almost every, if not every, riding in Quebec but with their support rising they were.

I wasn't referring to high income earners when I said punked would deny that, I was referring to them being able to expand from their 2011 vote share.

What?

The average household income in Etobicoke Centre is $105,881 in Parkdale High Park it's $105,406.

If only polling didn't show the NDP with a 9 point lead over the Liberals with those making over $100,000. The party also won the affluent neighbouring riding of Parkdale High Park. http://www.environics.ca/uploads/File/Environics-Research---Federal-Vote-Intention-May-17-2012%281%29.pdf

They won 14.7% last election. I don't see why if they are up close to 10 percentage points throughout the province why they can't make similar gains here. They won over 20% in Etobicoke Lakeshore and Etobicoke North and represent the riding adjacent to Etobicoke Centre.

They should be able to make gains in the riding.

It shouldn't take 30 hours to respond to a request for help though. Whether the boy would have survived is not the issue for me because we will never know, but the next time a request goes in it shouldn't take 30 hours to get help.

He walked 19 km away from his snowmobile, all that time walking on sea ice I believe. From whatI I understand at that time of the year in Labrador you can't really tell if you're on sea ice or on the ground. He was obviously able to last long enough to walk 19 km away, which would have taken hours and hours. As for the story you posted on the premier not meeting with the family it's because the family canceled the meeting. They originally wanted to meet with the premier, she agreed and then the family wanted to bring a search and rescue co-ordinator into the meeting. The premier said that was fine as long as her minister responsible for search and rescue was in attendance now that they'd have a so called expert with them. The family didn't wanted the minister there and canceled the meeting. The premier has since said she'd meet with the family one on one for a while and then bring the minister and the rescue co-ordinator into the meeting.

The NDP do well in polling with high income earners. Not surprised by your responses though, any Dipper would try and downplay this.

The NDP are polling in the mid 30's in Ontario after recieving about 25% last year and have a fair bit of momentum. If the NDP end up finishing a distant third, and don't improve their vote, I don't see how that's a good thing for the party. The Liberals would definitely try and take advantage of that.

The party is polling at 14% in the riding, if that ended up being the result on election day it wouldn't be great for the NDP in the GTA.