October 4, 2024
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A Conservative supporter shows voting results on his phone at an Federal byelection election night event for Toronto-St.Paul’s candidate Don Stewart in Toronto, on Monday, June 24, 2024.

Toronto is fortress Liberal no more

Trudeau and Freeland’s class war rhetoric fails as middle-income riding goes Conservative

A tenuous situation for the Liberals gave way to calamity overnight as the last votes were counted in the Toronto—St. Paul’s byelection. The final tally, reported at 4:44 AM ET, showed that Conservative candidate Don Stewart had beat Liberal Leslie Church by a margin of 590 votes.

Liberal insiders who went to bed thinking that the party had held the longtime stronghold were no doubt thrown into a panic when they checked their phones early Tuesday morning.

Assuming the results withstand a likely recount, this will mark the first time since the Harper years that the Conservatives have had any representation in Toronto, breaking a Liberal firewall in Canada’s largest city.

In any event, it is deeply embarrassing for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland — the Edmonton Oilers were the reigning Stanley Cup champions the last time a Conservative won in St. Paul’s. Particularly as the byelection disaster is a direct indictment of both Freeland’s latest tax-and-spend budget and Trudeau’s fair-weather friendship toward Israel.

Above all, a loss in the middle income inner-Toronto riding is a repudiation of both the redistributive tax measures announced in the budget and the class warfare rhetoric that Freeland has used to sell the tax hikes.

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See Also:

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