Defeat Peter Kent, Bob Dechert and Paul Calandra campaign
Posted by Vijay on June 11, 2009, at 12:41 am
I don't know when the next election will be but I do know that there are three seats in GTA that we want to take back from the Conservatives and I will be working on them on specific outreach campaign to ensure the defeat of Peter Kent, Bob Dechert and Paul Calandra. If you live in the riding or believe in the mission, join the team!
The easiest one is Bob Dechert. Bob Decher won with under 500 votes margin and did so only by increasing his margin by that number from the previous election. Omar lost around 3000 votes, people who didn't turn out to vote. This time around I think Omar will work hard and smart to get them out , but I will put my money to say that even those who switched to vote Conservative ware upset with Bob Dechert and will change next election.
I barely See Dechert in community events, but I also hear from many of his riding residents that they are not happy and will go back to Liberals. I think this should be a easy one and with the swing to the Liberals due to Ignatieff I can bet Omar can win a 2-3k margin.
Paul Calandra slightly different from Dechert. won with a margin of arond 600 votes, but increased votes by 3300 and Lui dropped around 3500 votes, a clear message that many Liberals voted Conservative in this mixed rural/urban riding. The riding profile has been changing with more Tamils, Hindus, Muslims moving in the south of the riding compared to the rural profile in the North. The Tamil community will come in full force to vote against Paul Calandra and even many Indian Hindus are not happy with the Conservatives. Ignatieff has done a fantastic job of reaching out to the mainstream Indo- Canadians and many of them who voted Conservative last time, have already come back to the Liberal family under Ignatieff leadership. So Paul will face serious challenges on many fronts that will add up to strengthen Lui. Lui is strong and reaching out very hard and I think the hard work of Lui and the failure to deliver by Paul will lead to a change in the riding again.
Peter Kent was a big loss to us for a variety of reasons and it will be the toughest of all the three. Peter gained nearly 15% and Liberals lost 13% for a difference of almost 5,000 votes. There is healing already in the Jewish community, but we have a long way to go. This is one riding that I will focus a lot of my energy going through lists, making calls and knocking doors and talking to everyone that I know in the riding. A lot will depend on who the Liberal candidate is going to be, but anyone with reasonable name recognition should be able to do well and win the seat back. We will pull in resources from other riding's in GTA and give a lesson or two to the Conservatives on outreach. I ain't revealing any tactics yet, but I will come out with the best to take this riding back. Peter Kent has been disappointing in his role especially Sri Lanka and the Conservatives will pay at the booth for their tall talks and failure to deliver. I agree this is not going to be easy, but we all need to work hard and very smart in finding out support , do the selling and bring them out on D- day.

James Morton
1100-5255 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6P4
416 225 2777
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