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Old Maple Leaf Gardens to host Liberal leadership convention

Posted By: Siobhan Morris · 10/28/2012 5:52:00 PM

They aleady had a time, now they have a place too.

Ontario Liberals will pick their next leader at the old Maple Leaf Gardens.  The Grits will hold their leadership convention the weekend of January 25-27, 2013 at Ryerson University's Mattamy Athletic Centre

Wannabe leaders will have to file their paperwork & pay $50, 000 by November 23rd to enter.  Candidates can't spend more than $500, 000 on their campaign.

Shortly after announcing his plan to step down, Dalton McGuinty said current cabinet ministers will have to abandon their portfolios if they want to take a shot at his job.

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan & Energy Minister Chris Bentley have ruled out running.  So has party president  Yasir Naqvi.

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  1. toby.lake.occupyto@gmail.com posted on 10/28/2012 06:26 PM
    This is an excellent venue for this event. For me, the Maple Leaf Gardens is one of our most important Heritage buildings. The Liberals have been all i've known as for a viable political party. The Conservatives have only done damage to Toronto and they have a long way to go to recover any trust from me. The rhetoric over E-Health and All day Kindergarden have been ideological based using overspending as an excuse to launch an over hyped and ironically costly campaign against the Liberal government.
  2. matt posted on 10/28/2012 09:55 PM
    now that the criminals will be all in one building, the opp should go in and arrest each and everyone of them from crimes that have been committed against the people/taxpayers of ontario, whatever this party is going to cost should be a step froward to the repayment of the billions that have been maliciously mispent at there hands, these people are going to seek a new leader, u got to be joking, can someone actually stand in front of the people of ontario and ask for office of any kind??? only someone with no ethics, morals or conscience, and that person will be there new leader, what a joke, so what does that tell you, losers have found themselves the biggest loser. the liberal party, a business for profit, should be in a court of law defending itself from charges of treason, not just provincaily but nationaly, this party should change its name from the liberal party of canada/ontario, whatever there business lisence states, to the "oops" party of canada/ontario, completely incompetant and unethical people, there answer to everything is "oops", thanks for nothing, wheres the police, crimes have taken place and no one is in jail
    1. Toby Lake posted on 10/29/2012 02:11 AM
      @matt Anything specific?
  3. proton posted on 10/30/2012 01:33 PM
    perfect venue! Maple Leaf Gardens had been the home to a losing hockey team since 1967. Glad to see the losing liberals maintaining the reputation of MLG
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