Two former Ontario party leaders are vying for the position of mayor in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, and experts say their past record, experience and name recognition could prove to be a “double-edged sword.”
Speaking with CTV News Toronto earlier this week, Horwath said community members approached her during past municipal election to see if she was interested in making a return to city hall.“The reason I got into politics in the first place was because of the grit and the spirit of the people of the city,” she said. “For me, it's about coming home and using everything that I've gained skills wise and knowledge wise and connections wise to further the interests of the city of Hamilton.
“After taking most of July to really be very thoughtful and … approaching it with great humility and thinking about it very carefully and making sure that my daughters in particular were comfortable with it, I got to the point where I felt that—and still feel—I do have something to continue to give back to my community. I am very passionate about public service.”
“My sense is that the population he's appealing to is much broader, and that population may have considerably more liberal supporters.” “There can be like that double edged sword though for people who lost to an opponent,” she said. “ have a track record and maybe people just don't agree with everything that they come with.”IS MUNICIPAL POLITICS A ‘CONSOLATION PRIZE’?
“One of the things that I sometimes think about when I think about what about, you know, if municipal politics is kind of a consolation prize for somebody who didn't get the price of provincial or federal politics. Former Mayor of Calgary … Nenshi, was oftentimes asked when he was mayor, because he was so popular and so successful, people would often ask him, when are you going to run provincially or federally and his response would always be why would I want that demotion,” Smith said.
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