A Brief from NAL publisher Doug Draper
The Liberal Party’s winning sweep across Canada – one that will see it form a majority government – has included two key wins in Niagara, Ontario this October 19th.
Vance Badawey, former mayor of Port Colborne, wins for the federal Liberals in the Niagara Centre Riding
Liberal candidate and former Port Colborne mayor Vance Badawey has won in a Niagara Centre Riding that includes Port Colborne, Welland, Thorold and a piece of south St. Catharines, beating NDP incumbent Malcolm Allen.
In the St. Catharines Riding, Liberal candidate Chris Bittle has defeated Conservative incumbent Rick Dykstra who many local political observers expected to hang on to his seat, even if the party collapsed nationally as it has.
In Niagara Falls, Conservative incumbent and former Harper cabinet minister Rob Nicholson has won his seat back in a riding that includes Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Fort Erie. There was speculation earlier on that the NDP might win a seat there.
Nicholson is one of the few Harper cabinet ministers who has beat the odds in this election. Chris Alexander, the immigration minister who faced a storm of controversy over the government’s pathetic response to the Syrian refugee crisis and for his promotion of a ‘barbaric cultural practices snitch line,” and Julian Fantino, who once walked out of a meeting of Canadian military veterans over cuts to veteran affairs programs, lost their seats in the GTA, and it looked like Joe Oliver, Harper’s finance minister and a former natural resources minister who promoted the tar sands and labelled environmentalists a threat to Canada’s interests, was going down to defeat too.
And to little surprise, Conservative incumbent Dean Allison has prevailed in a Niagara West Riding that runs through the Niagara municipalities of Pelham, West Lincoln, Lincoln and Grimsby.
More on all of this later.
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