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I remember him now, seemed like a nice, very positive guy.  I think I was a scrutineer with him in Toronto Centre back in 2006.  Ran into him a few times at the campaign office as well.  Looking at what I can find of him on the web – seems like he’ll be good for the riding.  We need more gay candidates, and more young candidates.

He’s an environmental engineer, which does give us some more ’street cred’ on that front.  Here’s what he said on the Green Shift after attending a Dion townhall:

As a person with an environmental engineering degree, I was very eager to attend Liberal party leader Stephane Dion’s town hall meeting last week to gain more information about the Green Shift. However, what I saw was less of an environmental plan and more about winning votes through wealth redistribution.

I’m sure many in the crowd loved the platitudes. After all, who doesn’t care about our children’s future? Who doesn’t want a cleaner, more prosperous country? Dion is being a demagogue and playing to people’s emotions by implying that to disagree with the lofty words is to somehow be against humanity.

We should all be skeptical when one election promise is made out to be the cure for all of society’s ills…

The Green Shift is supposed to be about reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, yet most of the meeting was spent enticing people with talk about tax cuts and expanding wasteful entitlement programs that have done nothing in the past to reduce poverty.

Dion had no problem stating a specific target for reducing poverty by using the money raised from taxing everyone on everything they need every day, but where is the target for reducing carbon dioxide? Without knowing how much CO2 will be reduced, we can’t know whether the benefit will be worth the pain of higher living expenses.