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News from Dion’s riding-St.Laurent Cartierville

Author: Wasyl Wysoczanskyj (Non-Partisan)

6 Oct

Surprise! Approached by a couple of Conservative workers outside Maxi. (they are alive!) They said the campaign was virtual (ie.no office), but that they had canvassed over 75% of the riding. Indicated they had received negative feedback from voters for having original literature only in French. Objective is to finish ahead of the Bloc. So,received my first piece of campaign literature (bilingual), still have not heard from other campaigns. Noticed that several Dion signs had been defaced, unusual in this staunchly Liberal riding, but otherwise no sign of Liberal campaign.

Filed under: Bloc Québécois, Conservative, Liberal, Local Campaigns, Montréal / Laval, Québec, Voter Decision Making, Wasyl Wysoczanskyj (Non-Partisan)

3 Responses for "News from Dion’s riding-St.Laurent Cartierville"

Guillaume Martin October 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am 1
It’s an easy riding for liberals. They don’t need to do anything there, they always took the ridings vote for granted, and they always won.

You could have a red mailbox as the liberal candidate in St-Laurent-Cartierville, and it would get elected. As long as it red, it’s a sure win.

By support percentage, it is the strongest Liberal riding in all QuÃ©bec.
Louise Tremblay Matchett October 8th, 2008 at 5:39 pm 2
I, too, realized early on in this riding, that Peter Galiatsatos was going to be the only one really campaigning. But, having been the official agent in this riding during the 2004 election, I can only say that Zaid Mahayni who was also a young lawyer based in the riding with much local support, also canvassed 95% of the riding door to door, and in the end, no amount of campaigning could stop the loyal Liberal supporters in this riding from voting for Dion with about 60% of the vote.

From my conversation with Mr. Galiatsatos, he seems to be strong on crime, being a public defender… But he has not yet responded to my request during week one of the campaign, for more info about what he thinks he can do for this riding if he is elected.

It seems all of the candidates here are willing to complain about airplanes landing. What a joke that this is about all that our local paper can report about all of Mr. Dion’s competitors….

I am actually thinking about the vote swapping issue!
Louise Tremblay Matchett October 8th, 2008 at 5:42 pm 3
Correction: “an official agent for the NDP in this riding in the 2004 election”

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