30 Replies to “Toronto Elections”

  2. Glad to see that Chow was kicked to the curb, humiliated by Ford, a distant third.
    I hope the results send the message for next time that Toronto is not interested in communists and socialists as mayor. Looks like David Miller killed that for a generation. His only good legacy.
    Other than that, a pretty unexciting election.

  3. I expect Tory to surprise a lot of people with the job he does. Quietly competent, he’s the antithesis to Rob Ford. He’ll get things done, and restore the balance that the city – after a succession of loony mayors from both left and right – so desperately needs.

  4. I had a Tory sign on my lawn, and even donated to his campaign early on when Chow looked like she might win. But as it became evident that she wasn’t going to make it, I voted for Ford tonight. Just to send that message.
    Tory was backed by the Liberal establishment… I worry what kind of mayor he will be, but hopefully the strong Ford vote will remind him what Torontonians want.
    Stay out of our pockets, and don’t tell us how to live our lives!

  5. Came out as expected for weeks. Elections really matter, especially long ones like this. And in elections, there’s nowhere to hide. It wasn’t just Toronto rejecting and out an out socialist. The long exposure of the campaign showed Chow to be fundamentally both arrogant and stupid. And for many voters it appeared that the latter came as a bit of a shock. In the end, for all the hoopla she got, her support started and stopped within half a kilometer of The Annex and Wellesley and Gerrard.
    Tory has a tough row to hoe. He’s got a left-of-centre Council. But, the strong showing of the Ford voters in Scarborough and Etobicoke show that the drive for efficient government and fiscal prudence hasn’t gone anywhere. And no doubt he found it a bit alarming that even with only six weeks to campaign, Doug Ford still put in a very strong showing.

  6. The moral of the story is don’t let The Beav (aka Lizzie May) endorse you.
    Wait. She did that for the Q man today.
    Oh oh.

  8. Its so easy to dump on Ford – especially if you are foolish enough to believe the enemedia – but he had the city moving in the right direction which is why the attack dogs never stopped barking.
    John Tory promises to “end gridlock and install more bike lanes”. This is a an example of doublethink, two contradictory ideas in the head at the same time and believing both. Can’t and won’t happen.
    Looks like he wants to spend like a Wynne progressive. I hope I’m wrong. Otherwise Saskatchewan and Alberta should prepare for another influx of out of work or overtaxed Ontarians in the next couple of years.

  10. Under John Tory, I, as a Toronto resident, expect to be paying hundreds of dollars if not more a year in taxes and “revenue tools” – which is a code term for government taking more of our money. He will not persecute taxpayers like Chow would have, but there will be persecution. And his “smart track” transit plan will clog Union Station with hundreds of additional rail vehicles a day – traffic the under-construction station can ill handle. I go through there everyday and I can tell you, it is packed now. I am not totally cynical about this, but I am fearful.

  11. Better the RINO (for our American readers) than the Commie but I predict Tory will concede to the Left on alot of important issues just to get the Toronto Star writing nice things about him.

  15. I don’t think Tory will be a particularly good mayor. Be wary of people who spend years and years trying to get elected to office.
    And if you think he will be a conservative mayor, then I’ve got a gold mine in Nigeria to sell you.

  17. Tory, I believe, is Chow ‘lite’. He is definitely not conservative. He is a Utopian, somewhat left of center and believes that government should play a pivotal role in people’s lives. He will was money on bad plans, just not as recklessly and nor as blatantly to most as Chow would have been. it is unfortunate that Ford’s brother had enough personal baggage for 5.

  18. Oh great, the man that burred Ontario PC party and pissed away the legacy of Mike Harris is now a major. How easily we forget what a useless leader he was.
    Sure he is better than Chow. Syphilis is better than AIDS too.

  19. I would agree with Lance and Colonialista. Liberals disguised as Conservatives won in Toronto and Alberta.

  20. John Tory was a successful businessman – at least he made a lot of money doing the job at Rogers – but he’s been a screw-up at every political challenge he ever faced. At least he won this time, but I don’t expect anything but a Red Tory at the least. Pun intended.
    Nobody can fix this city. It will take an apocalypse. Strangely, at the ripe old age of 55 I was actually born in what is now Toronto (Etobicoke was the burbs back then) but I have never lived in Toronto. I’ve never cast a vote there. I would have voted for Doug Ford if I could. It’s that ‘heads exploding’ thing I really wanted to see. No such luck this time.
    Better than Dog Chow and after Wynne’s win – again a pun, I’m on a roll – it at least didn’t drive me to drink myself to a state of stupor…

  21. The following is the comment that I posted on CBC.Ca, and was disabled.
    Headline: Toronto election: John Tory elected mayor
    ”Given the negative publicity that Rob Ford received from the leftist media, and given the fact that Doug Ford has no intentions of becoming mayor until his brother took ill, Doug Ford did exceptionally well. Imagine what Rob would have done if he had ran himself! As for John Tory, he won because of his name is ”Tory.” No need to talk about Olivia, that was a no-show.”
    Now you know why the liberals favor the CBC.
    Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-election-john-tory-elected-mayor-1.2814902

  23. Tory’s worst nightmare is having Rob Ford on council, being the new mayor’s little critic and pointing out when — not if — Tory strays from the conservative principals he claims to hold and will be exposed, IMO, for the Liberal that he truly is. Ford is going to be to Tory what he was to fmr. mayor David Miller. It should set up nicely for Rob in 2018.

  24. Oh, by the way, Scott Reid, former Liberal strategist turned CTV political commentator said on CTV News Channel a few days ago that he had inside information that Rob Ford was in serious trouble in Ward 2 and may not even win his old council seat. In retrospect, it was just something Reid threw out there to trash Ford, which is something he likes to do. Reid once again shown to confuse objective analysis with deluded, wishful thinking.
    Ford – 11629
    second place finisher – 2158
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/torontovotes/ward-2-etobicoke-north-1.2800492

  26. Well something closer to home. The “progressive” cino’s did it again.
    Chrome balls Mandel wins in WHITEMUD. Prentice wins in Calgary the lifetime entitled school trustee wins in Calgary as does one other.
    So prediction time. Prentice will bring in a “green plan ” similar to Ontario resulting in a doubling or worse by the bird blender “sustainable development ” kind.
    The bureaucracy will continue to grow with middle and upper management over paid navel gazers dreaming up new Nannystate regulations and red tape.
    Alberta will be playing catch up in the provincial debt race, we can’t stay in third place behind Ontario and queebek can we?
    A new NEP will be drafted and property rights will forever be kept from the peons.
    Is there actually anywhere a conservative can call home anymore? Because my Alberta is slipping away only to be replaced with liberal morals and guilt.

  27. I remember when Tory ran in a byelection for a seat and the Ontario PC leadership here in Kawartha Lakes. He got creamed by a Liberal former Deadhead in a clown suit. Conservatives stayed home in droves.
    That is how a real conservative riding treats CINOs.

  28. “I remember when Tory ran in a byelection for a seat and the Ontario PC leadership here in Kawartha Lakes. He got creamed by a Liberal former Deadhead in a clown suit. Conservatives stayed home in droves.
    That is how a real conservative riding treats CINOs.”
    Really smart too. It kept McSquinty in power, gave us Hudak, and now we have Wynne. Thanks a lot. Very deep thinking on your part.

  30. Of course because if Red Tory had won that one he would have surely carried the next election … just like the one preceding that. Tory is the number one reason why Ontario PC party almost disintegrated. Compared to him Hudak is a political genius.

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