Does Ben Blain know he is a candidate. In the 1999 election a candidate ran for the same party. Could not find the candidate in the riding so had a search done and located the candidate near Ottawa on. The candidate did not know she was in the election. I had a Federal Court judge take over the issue and it was pursued with Elections Ontario.

This riding is very close and could be a huge upset in favour of the Liberals. Word on the street is that O’Toole has out worn his welcome. After 12 years of representing this riding there seems to be a feeling that the current Liberal government has done more for Durham than O’Toole managed to during the Harris/Eves days. Somerville is from the northern geographical half of the riding and is well known and well liked which means that the north will be split between Uxbridge going PC versus Port Perry Scugog going Liberal. The real fight will be fought in Bowmanville and Courtice. In the past Bowmanville has a history of swinging Liberal when the rest of the riding goes PC. And now that there is four more years of growth, making both Courtice and Bowmanville younger and more urban-centred either of these cities are up for grabs. There is also the issue that a close associate of O’Toole, the current Clarington mayor, Jim Abernathy has lost a much of his favour in a short period of time due the incineration debacle.

Living in the riding, I have talked to virtually no one who has any respect for O’toole as an MPP. However,the polls show us that there is still a significant portion of the voters who have voted PC all their lives, and can’t see themselves doing any different, no matter how useless the person is.
Looks like another easy victory for the bird-flipper!

Surprise. The libertrian candiate has disappeared and is not on the ballot. Somebody must read this site.