Call a cab, this vote is over before it begins…the riding belongs to Gilles…

People are fed up in being in the opposition, nothing is being accomplished. We need something else beside belonging to a party of protest. Go Pat!

What has Gilles Bisson accomplished for us in 17 years? He’s been running this smoke and mirror show for too long. I’m tired of being left out of funding announcements. I’m voting Liberal for the first time ever so we can get rid of an ineffective NDP MPP. Enjoy your retirement Gilles!

It’s time for a change The Liberals are going to win and it’s time to get someone who will sit at the same table as the Premier and Ministers. Pat Boucher is that person

I voted NDP all my life, but let’s face it, Gilles has been there for four terms and even I must admit he hasn’t delivered. We need to stop blaming successive governments for everything that’s not going right in Timmins-James Bay. It looks like the Liberals will be reelected and I want to be on the side of government for a change. I’m voting Boucher on Oct. 10.

TJB knows it’s time for a change. We have had 17 of NDP representation and 17 years of no progress. Pat Boucher has an outstanding team behind him and he is building momentum. Pat is a hard worker, he is well known and respected, and he has integrity. He will be a strong voice for the region at Queen’s Park. Bye Bye, Gilles, say hello to a new generation!

I generally sit on the fence between voting NDP or Liberal. This time around it is quite clear that the best candidate is Pat Boucher. The North needs a political change, and it also needs representation from a younger generation. Enough of the older politicians who take their positions for granted and do little work for the good of their riding.

I’m not generally a conspricy thoerist but does anybody find it even slightly odd that there are seven very similar denonucements of Gilles Bisson from people who are purportedly from the riding. And 6 of these came in a 24 hour period.

I’ve read a lot of comments on different ridings on this site and these dont seem geunine.

Given that Bisson had won 50% of the vote or higher in the last three elections including the 1995 diaster for the NDP I think he’ll do just fine.

Of course they are real comments, posted by real people. Why would one find it odd that 7 people wrote comments supporting their Liberal candidate? I suppose I can’t speak for the others who wrote comments, but I did so on my own free will, and not forced by some evil mastermind. Bisson only won the 2003 election with 49.44% of the votes while the Liberal candidate at the time (who did not work very hard to secure votes) got 40.94% of the ballots. It’s not much of a stretch to believe that a Liberal who actually worked hard could win!

The yapper has been caught at his own yapping. He has shown his true colours by affixing his name to a petition to cancel the spring bear hunt in this province while telling the voting public otherwise and particularly the hunters that he is on their side. We either have elected a representative who doesn’t want to admit his past mistakes or is up to his usual antics of fooling the public.
We deserve better representation in order to participate in the benefits of government.
Time for a change!!!!

For all to enjoy!!!
AN ODE TO GILLES BISSON
Could it be that the time has come,
For Gilles to ride off into the sun?
After 17 years and governments of all kinds,
Timmins-James Bay continues to lag behind.

Mill closures, job losses and the high price of gas,
You can’t get anything done for us when you’re acting like an ???.

He raises the issues but gets no results,
No one will work with someone who spends his time hurling insults.

Criticize and complain, protest and blame,
All we ever see is more of the same.

But it’s time to put all of that in the past,
And send our ineffective MPP out on his ???.

A Plan for Northern Growth and Prosperity,
Does not include Gilles Bisson and the NDP Party.

On October 10th, we can put an end to 17 years of stagnation,

And make Timmins-James Bay a better place for the next generation.

gilles will win again. timmins doesn’t want a do nothing liberal. we have enough of those in david ramsay etc. liberals let jobs disappear. new democrats fight to save them. liberals also have record of not helping the average joe at their offices. just ask those who live with david ramsay as mpp

why would we want liberals and their ways. they have done nothing this campaign but steal bisson election signs. that’s their way of campaigning. gilles has brought 108-million dollars in the last 4 years. sounds good to me. plus he actually helps people. doesn’t tell them to go see a lawyer.

Hey Dale T.
Sounds like you to are blinded by all the facts on an ineffective MPP like Bisson.
Blame this, blame that. All the job losses and closures all happened on GILLES BISSONS watch an no one else. AS of the signs, you are in fact admitting that you and the NDP’s are the ones out there braking all the signs of the other two parties. Dale, start looking for another job as Angus is next.

Out of 108 millions that he claims he got for this riding, there is actually only thousands of dollars that went through his office. 100 of volunteers who actually worked on those projects are quite offended that his is taking credit for their hard work. Gilles has made more money as wages then what he has brought to this riding.

It’s obvious that the Liberals will win the next election with a majority and it’s time that we elect a representative that will be sitting along side the Premier and his Cabinet. Bisson has taken too much credit for what he percieved to have done. He did not i repeat did not get 108 million dollars for Timmins James Bay..i know this as a fact. Also, l saw him in a debate in Kapuskasing. He is uncouth,loudmouth and shows no respect for the other candidates and the voters of TJB. I really don’t understand why people will vote for him. His Party will finish third or fourth depending on the Green Party showing. How can he effectively represent us. If you don’t like the Premier at least vote for the man and that man is Pat Boucher.

Snap out of it is right. The north has a solid majority of liberals as it is . All the north got is lip service and very little of that . All the promises of help for the forest industry was a farce . We need a strong NDP presence and a minority government . Dont vote liberal and put in another majority so they can again ignore the north and cater to the vote rich south. The NDP should have a strong contingent from Northern Ontario so the north can have a strong voice and if its a minority government a lot of clout for a change. A vote for a Liberal majority is a vote to have yourself marginalized.
Laid off forestry worker presently living in very prosperous Manitoba

Let’s face it: Gilles Bisson whines and complains but really…whats been accomplished. Now new roads, schools, highways nothing. Because he talks a talk but can never really walk the walk….he whines and complains and then takes credit when someone else solves the problem.

It would be great if we got rid of them, it really would. However, people in Timmins are so diluted and the fact remains that people think for some reason that because he has never had a real job he represents them and he a “man of the people.” This is a fallacy and quite frankly if they continue to think this way they deserve what they get.

In Pat Boucher you get a guy who lives in Kapuskasing. He might as well be from Cornwall. Representing less than 10% of the ridings population helps us very little. He is not very well known and considering the slew of broken promises seems to suggest he would be no different.

In Steve Kidd we get a man with a reputation that can be described as mediocre at best. Hes done some good, fine. Hes also been quite questionable in his behavior and has burnt more bridges than the great fire of 1911.

That means you might as well vote Green because change is not in sight for the people of TJB. In fact, anything positive seems to scare them off. Until they wake up they dont deserve much more.

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Boucher might eat away at Bisson’s plurality due to his roots in Kap, but the only way Bisson will lose this if he has an insane public meltdown, or he retires. The latter will happen before the former. Boucher is likely setting himself up for a later run, either provincially or federally.

I saw the debate last night and I have to say Gilles looked nervous. He wasn’t the stone cold debater he’s been in previous elections.

I think Pat Boucher held his ground quite well and really put Bisson in his place for the rest of the debate when he stood up to the incumbent and refused to allow him to take credit for the residents of Kap saving their mill. I guess Mr. Bisson was hoping that people would have forgotten what Shelley Martel said when she helplessly raised her hands and said there was nothing she could do to save the mill.

Welcome to the race Mr. Verner. Keep calling Gilles on his lies and exageration Mr. Boucher.

The red wave will hit so hard that Gilles et al will lift their hands up in the air and say “whaaa happened????”

Pat deserves this win. He is confident, diplomatic (unlike some I’ve heard lately during debates), positive and very compassionate. As an MPP, I truly believe Pat will work hard and I believe that as a result of his earnest work, Timmins-James Bay will prosper like never before.

It appears that the Liberals are heading for another majority. Now l repeat now is the time to vote for someone that will be sitting at the same table as the the Premier. Yelling and whining and complaining from the basement doesn’t get us anything. Some of you may not like the Premier but at least vote for the person that will speak to him on an equal footing. That man is Pat Boucher and he will be heard..afer all, since is nomination no less that 9 ministers have been in our riding. Imagine what will happen when he is elected….imagine and then vote ..vote for Pat.

I agree with RR Shaw but if Boucher got elected, he’s Minister material for sure.

I agree, it really is time to dump the NDP. We’ve all been in the basement for too long. It would definitly be beneficial to our riding, to be on the winning side for a change. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

The Premiers’ debate did it for me. DM was definitly the best of the bunch, with a balanced approach to governing. The others, all they could muster, was taking cheap shots at the Liberals.

In previous elections, the province went broke under the NDP majority (Bob Rae), and then the PC’s sold off our province to pay for it (who can forget Harris, and what he did). This left the Liberals with a freggin mess. In the four short years, the Liberals have really turned things around, and I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Given another 4 year mandate, I’m sure the Liberals will rightfully return prosperity to our province. This IS balanced governing.

The way I see it, the PC’s platform promises, are gonna cost me too much. If these people get in, my taxes are going to go up, sure as hell.

The NDP are known for their social programs. I can’t afford those either. My taxes are going up here also.

Well, these are my thoughts. Let the best man win!

i see liberals have nothing better to do than blog.
i work at queen’s park and the house of commons.
i know how the system works. gilles is asked by ministers all the time on projects approved.
so don’t think for one second he doesn’t have a hand to play in funding.
just shows the ignorance people have to the system
it’s amazing how liberals take credit for the same funding in their ridings, and conservatives the same.
so if the member has nothing to do with it.
why vote liberal.
you just told me the MPP doesn’t play in funding announcements so why change.
would rather have a LouD mouthed MPP who gets attention for the riding than silent, give me my pay check and don’t bother me liberal.