I am not aware of any Halton specific data and have no access to either campaign’s voter ID. I’ve also been asked if I felt calling someone beyond incompetent was wise since I’ve posted this. My response was yes, because in Raitt’s case her experience proves this.

Raitt is the President of the Toronto Port Authority. It is one of the worst managed government agencies in the GTA. This organization finds new and innovative ways of alienating Torontonians and waste our money on bogus projects almost annually.

Anyone remember the fast ferry to Rochester? Ask Lisa how much they blew on that gem being built just in time for the fast ferry to fail? It is now a movie set. Good one.

Remember the bridge to the island airport? How much did her organization waste on a project that never happened and would have harmed freighter traffic (kind of the point of a harbour no?)

There was a big deal made about a crumbling sea wall in the Western Gap that for some reason between the Port Authority and the Federal government they felt the City should pay to fix. Ports are a federal jurisdiction and run by Raitt’s organization.

This ‘executive’ experience Raitt has is mismanaging a government organization that excels only at losing money and making poor decisions from one of the only Harbour commission offices in the world that cannot actually see it’s port. She is so well thought of here, both David Miller and Olivia Chow were able to win the Mayor’s chair and the federal seat in Trinity Spadina on Raitt’s bridge.

I could go on, but that entry was meant to highlight how Turner’s main opposition is so inadequate in comparison that national trends will not matter in Halton and all I have provided so far has been from memory as someone who uses the Harbour regularly and used to be employed in the port, although not for the Port Authority itself.