It’s Ford Nation to the fore! Liberals driven into oblivion as Province Jubilates
The boos said it all. The raucous crowd of Ford Nationals drowned out Doug Ford’s concluding words of his victory speech on Thursday evening when he mentioned how the Liberals and Kathlyn Wynne had put up a good fight.
The Toronto Congress Centre was a sea of blue as their leader, a political outsider derided by the Liberal elites spoke of ordinary people taking back their province. “Thank you, Ontario! The party with the taxpayer’s money is over,” Ford had tweeted soon after the results were announced. “Together, we will get this province back on track.”
For the Ford Nation, Wynne and her Liberals had over the past years turned into denizens from another world, interested only in enslaving the province for their own welfare and lying constantly to reinforce their positions and privileges.
Wynne’s devious access-for-cash fundraising plan to give lobbyists a free-run was the first of her many arrogant schemes later abandoned after public outrage. Her party’s deceptive nature of practising politics, her lying about the massive Ontario budget deficits, her ongoing quarrels with auditor general Bonnie Lysyk left a scar on the psyche of the people across Ontario.
The list of complaints includes soaring electricity and gasoline prices, lack of affordable housing, longer hospital wait times, partial privatization of Hydro One, her unkept promises on auto insurance, an unpopular cap and trade program and on and on…
For the Indo-Canadian community, there was also the divisive anti-India resolution last year sponsored by her and moved by MPP Harinder Malhi (who was pushed into third place and political oblivion in her riding of Brampton North.)
The electorate also saw through her party’s venomous tweets about Ford drawing analogies with US President Donald Trump and her lies about the PC leader getting ready to cut 40,000 jobs.
Wynne had tweeted “Let’s just call this for what it is – Doug Ford sounds like Donald Trump and that’s because he is like Donald Trump. He believes in (an) ugly brand of politics that traffics in smears and lies.”
The door has now slammed shut on Kathleen Wynne and her Liberals.
They have lost official status as a political party in Ontario… and it may be impossible for them to rise up again. Their space has now been taken over by the New Democrats.
As Ford said: “My friends, this victory belongs to you. This victory belongs to the people. And tonight, the people of Ontario have spoken,” Ford said.
“A new day has dawned in Ontario — a day of opportunity, a day of prosperity and a day of growth.”
Candidates from the South Asian community who won in the Ontario election:
Amarjot Singh (PC) – Brampton West
Gurratan Singh (NDP) – Brampton East
Sara Singh (NDP) – Brampton Centre
Prabmeet Sarkaria (PC) – Brampton South
Rasheed Kaleed (PC) – Mississauga East-Cooksville
Sheref Sabawy (PC) – Mississauga-Erin Mills
Deepak Anand (PC) – Mississauga-Malton
Nina Tangri (PC) – Mississauga-Streetsville
Vijay Thanigasalam (PC) – Scarborough-Rouge Park_
Logan Kanapathi (PC)- Markham-Thornhill
Doly Begum (NDP) – Scarborough Southwest
Faisal Hasan (NDP) – York South-Weston
Parm Gill (PC) – Milton
Candidates from the South Asian community who lost in the Ontario election:
Jagroop Singh (NDP) and Vic Dillon (Lib) – Brampton West
Ripudaman Dillon (PC) and Harinder Malhi (Lib) – Brampton North
]Sudeep Varma (PC) and Parminder Singh (Lib) – Brampton East
Harjit Jaswal (PC) and Safdar Hussain (Lib) – Brampton Centre
Paramjit Gill (NDP) and Sukhwant Thethi (Lib) – Brampton South
Dipika Damerla (Lib) – Mississauga East-Cooksville
Farina Hassan (NDP) and Imran Mian (Lib) – Mississauga-Erin Mills
Amrit Mangat – Mississauga-Malton
Jacqueline Gujarati (NDP), Manay Abhijeet (Green)
Sabi Ahsan (Lib) – Thornhill
Khalid Ahmed (NDP) – Don Valley East
Akil Sadikali (NDP) Don Valley North
Shawn Rizwi (Green) – Etobicoke Centre
Mahmud Amin (NDP)m Shafiq Qadri (Lib), Nancy Ghuman (Green) – Etobicoke North
Tasleem Riaz (NDP) – Scarborough-Agincourt
Zeyd Bismilla (NDP) and Mazhar Shafiq (Lib) – Scarborough Centre
Roshan Nallaratnam (PC), Reza Hamid (Others) – Scarborough-Guildwood
Sumi Shan (Lib) Priyan D’Silva (Green), Amit Pitamber (Oth) – Scarborough-Rouge Park
Ibrahim Daniel (Lib), Eric Shivdas (Ind) – Pickering-Uxbridge
Akash Grewal (PC) – Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
Indira Naidoo-Harris )Lib) – Miton
Saima Zaidi (NDP – Oakville North-Burlington
Surekha Shenoy (Lib) – Kitchener South-Hespeler
