He’s done it municipally. Now Sam Dyson is doing it federally. “Face-to-face interaction with people is by far the most effective way to convey our message,” he said. “Most importantly (we) hear what people are concerned about.” Sam Dyson, 23, is a campaign aide to Liberal candidate Julie Dabrusin (in the Toronto-Danforth riding) in the campaign leading up to the Oct. 19 vote.
“What we’ve had with Stephen Harper is a government that has been unwilling to work with our premiers and our cities,” Toronto-Danforth Liberal candidate Julie Dabrusin told the Observer in an interview. “We need to get people back at the table again.”
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, called Toronto “Canada’s most important city” Monday — while in Vancouver.
Liberal candidate Nathaniel Erskine-Smith wants to be clear: he is not running to be Justin Trudeau’s voice in Beaches-East York; he is running to be the voice of Beaches-East York to Justin Trudeau. “I got involved because of Justin Trudeau,” Erskine-Smith said, “(because) Trudeau is the only leader of a major party who has committed to bottom-up democracy, not telling candidates what to say or think, but really encouraging us to be strong advocates for our communities.”
The Conservative Party has yet to replace the candidate it recently dropped in Toronto-Danforth riding.
Erskine-Smith will be going up against the NDP’s incumbent MP Matthew Kellway and Conservative nominee Bill Burrows for the seat in the House of Commons from Beaches-East York.
MP Craig Scott was given the nod by the NDP riding association in Toronto-Danforth on Saturday to run for re-election.