[mr12387]

Here’s a list of 25 individuals who if they do their homework correctly and we put enough resources into can help pull off a decent majority the next time around without having to worry about the ‘wild card’ that is Quebec.

The Dream Team

Indicators:
*: New Candidate (All new candidates are placed in a riding they’ve run in before either federally or provincially)
‘:Chance of winning in next election may depend on incumbent’s choice to resign
(__%): Margin we lost by in the 2008 election

British Columbia:
1 Esquilmalt-Juan de Fuca – LIB (0.11%): Troy DeSouza
2 Burnaby-Douglas – NDP (1.69%): Ronald Leung
3 Vancouver South – LIB (1.84%): Wai Young
4 New Westminster-Coquitlam – NDP (3.00%): Yonah Martin
5 Newton-North Delta – LIB (5.51%): Sandeep Pandher

Alberta:
6 Edmonton-Strathcona – NDP (0.93%): Rahim Jaffer

PEI:
7 Malpeque – LIB (4.91%): Mary Crane
*8 Cardigan – LIB (23.21%): Pat Binns

Ontario:
9 Brampton West – LIB (0.24%): Kyle Seeback
10 Welland – NDP (0.96%): Alf Kiers
11 Brampton Springdale – LIB (1.58%): Parm Gill
12 Sault Ste. Marie – NDP (2.79%): Cameron Ross
13 Guelph – LIB (3.04%): Gloria Kovach
*’14 Mississauga South – LIB: (4.3%): Phil Green (I would bring him back)
15 Eglinton-Lawrence – LIB (5.2%): Joe Oliver
*16 Don Valley West – LIB (5.35%): John Tory
17 London North Centre – (5.96%): Paul Van Meerbergen
‘18 Ajax Pickering – LIB (6.43%): Rick Johnson
‘19 Kingston and the Islands – LIB (6.61%):Brian Abrams
*20 Nipissing-Timiskaming – LIB (12.21%): Mike Harris

Newfoundland
21 Avalon – LIB (10.12%): Fabian Manning

Territories:
22 Western Arctic – NDP (3.82%): Brendan Bell

New Brunswick:
*23 Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe – LIB (2.72%): Bernard Lord

Manitoba:
24 Elmwood-Transcona – NDP (5.44%): Thomas Steen
25 Winnipeg South Centre – LIB (5.99%): Trevor Kennerd


Additional Options:
Quebec:
26 Louis-Hebert – BLOC (7.91%): Luc Harvey

…And the ‘Piece de Resistance’
(Combination of dark humour / dreaming / needing to find someone for Nova Scotia)

Nova Scotia:
‘ 27 Kings-Hants – LIB (18.04%): Joe Clark

[triple M]

I don't see guys like Mike Harris, Pat Binns, or Joe Clark re-entering politics they might contribute in other ways.

[palomino_pony]

I have made the same argument in another thread, but did not present it as nice as you have. You are 100% correct: we don't need Quebec to get a majority. Gains in Quebec are 2 elections away and should be part of the end game after the CPC solidifies BC, gains in Ontario and makes inroads in the Atlantic provinces.

[the silent platform]

25 Winnipeg South Centre – LIB (5.99%): Trevor Kennerd - this is my riding, and you're absolutely right. if all of our known supporters had made it out, we would have beat Anita Neville. She also engaged in some low-ball politics to sqeak by with her smallest margin of victory yet.

With Shelly Gover winning St Boniface, there is now a Conservative to the west of us (Fletcher), the south of us (Bruinooge) and the east of us (Glover). I really believe that the nest time is the charm for this riding.


24 Elmwood-Transcona – NDP (5.44%): Thomas Steen - this riding should have been ours this time. Thomas Steen is a perfect star candidate to run here and the campaign was very well organized. I heard that Steen might be a little too shy for public office though. (he wouldn't exactly dazzle people while door-knocking)

This riding is a huge middle class and lower middle class unionized area. The current sitting MP is an old MLA rep for the riding. He is extremely left wing. If we can keep Steen campaigning throughout this parliament or get a new, YOUNG, strong male to start now, it can be ours next time as well.

[kwlafayette]

[cosmostein]

John Tory couldn't win a seat in a Provincial election in the 416's.

However with that said, Don Valley West is perhaps our best chance to win a 416 federally, and since the current MP will be sitting for the first time perhaps he is vulnerable.

Perhaps he would make a better lieutenant then leader, and it would allow Frank Klees to run the Provincial PC party.

Hmmmmmmm, I like it.

As for Mississauga South, which is my home riding as much as I think Phil is a great guy and I campaigned for him in 2004 and 2006, he was a great candidate when "The Four Sisters" or the Lakeview Generating Station was an huge issue in the riding.

There was a fear that it would be not be shut down in 2004, and a fear that they would build something equally terrible IE natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant was a HUGE factor in 2006.

Phil was a champion of that issue, now all that is left on that site is rubble and we wait for the first condo's to go up.

Now it goes back to being Szabo's riding, Szabo the most Conservative Liberal in their caucus who has has run in the riding since 1980 and won every time since 1993, Szabo who three times has been declared "Canada's hardest working MP".

If it was anyone else Mississauga South would be Blue.

Want Mississauga South? The solution is simple. Don Cherry is a resident of Mississauga South (all be it right on the cusp)

Run Cherry in Mississauga South,

[cosmostein]

[Mac]

[cosmostein]

[kwlafayette]

Toronto voters are wrong, why should we give them a home? They have to realize they are wrong before they can start voting intelligently. 6 or 7 more terms voting in Miller and such should give them a clue.

[cosmostein]

[SFrank85]

That liberal Joe Clark? Keep him out!

[ezbeatz]

If Julian Fantino steps down as the OPP Commissioner, the Federal Conservatives should tap him to run in Vaughan. Bevilaqua saw his 20,000 vote lead in 2006 dwindle to 8,000. A high profile candidate like Fantino would knock him off. Besides, scuttle butt says Bevilaqua is stepping down in the next two years so he can run as Mayor of Vaughan.

[mr12387]

Keep the suggestions and the criticisms coming. I truly believe we can put together the best slate of candidates ever seen in Canadian history the next time around.

Here are some other possibilities for new candidates. Take everything with a grain of salt, they are just possibilities – some of them aren’t very likely. I’m just throwing things out there. And even if some of our star power doesn’t have the greatest chance of winning it will help us in other ridings where the chances are greater or where we only won by a slim margin.

New Brunswick:
Madawaska-Restigouche: Jeannot Volpe

Ontario:
Ottawa Centre: John Manley

Newfoundland:
Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor: Rick Hillier

[paulalexdij]