By Pepper Parr
August 5, 2015
BURLINGTON, ON
Well – they are off and it is going to be a long run – and for the political junkies – they are in heaven. The Jays are doing rather well too – lots of couch time in the months ahead.
There are now 30 additional federal constituencies across Canada – one new one in our area.
Set out below are the boundaries for the constituencies the citizens of Burlington will vote in.
Rural Burlington Voters south of Derry Road are in the Halton constituency.
The city is going to be represented by three different politicians one of which is will probably be a Cabinet minister; Lisa Raitt is expected to be re-elected n Halton. She is the Conservative candidate for the constituency that covers much of rural Burlington.
The Gazette does not yet have the names of other candidates for the Halton federal seat. Is Raitt that strong?
In the event that the Conservatives lose the election and there is a leadership contests – expect Raitt to be in that race.
The constituency Mike Wallace has represented has been made a little smaller.
Burlington will see incumbent Mike Wallace running against first timer Liberal Karina Gould and frequent NDP candidate David Laird.
The new constituency of Oakville Burlington North – known now as OBN matters to those in the west end of the city
The new riding, Oakville Burlington North, stretches across both Oakville and Burlington. Pam Damoff, a member of Oakville’s Town Council is running for the Liberals and Effie Triantafilopoulos is running for the Conservatives with Adnan Shahbaz running under the Green part banner.
The New Democrats have yet to announce a candidate
The Gazette will undertake to provide regular reports on the progress of the various campaigns.
