Key swing ridings in the upcoming election
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Summary
In this episode of Swing Riding Profiles, we're profiling the key ridings and profiling them based on which ridings we think will determine the election. In this episode, we talk about the importance of the riding of Milton East and Halton Hills South, and why we think it's one of the most important ridings to watch.
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doing a series here at Juno News called Swing Riding Profiles. We've highlighted the key
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ridings and profiled them based on which ridings we think will determine the election. It's going
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to come down to a handful of swing ridings. It's going to be close, folks. As you can see,
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even with our neighbor poll, we have the conservatives at 40, the liberals at 38,
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neck and neck. And it's going to come down to a small handful of votes and a small handful of
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ridings. I want to talk about one that we just highlighted this week, which is Milton East and
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Halton Hills South. So you wrote that this is the sort of seat the Conservatives have to win
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in order to form government. It's also critical for the Liberals to hold if they expect to retain
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power. So I hope I'm not putting you on the spot too much here, David, but I'm hoping you can help
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us understand this riding of Milton East, Halton Hills. It's a suburban Toronto. I think it's
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it's considered suburban or ex-urban, just part of the GTA or just outside of it. And I'm hoping
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you can sort of walk us through why you think this is one of the most important ridings to watch in
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the election. I think it's demographically very interesting to watch. I think you have a lot of
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young families in this riding specifically. It's also on the doorstep of many other GTA ridings,
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like it's firmly within Halton region, which is on the doorstep of Mississauga and Peel. I think
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that you have very interesting ethnic communities in there as well um and sort of bridging that
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urban world divide because when you have communities like georgetown and other small
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ones on the fringe you're getting out to uh shooting down towards like kitchener area as
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an example of where this kind of is projecting and out towards uh like michael chong's uh kind
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of fortress that he's built in the uh from the blue perspective it's seen as a natural stepping
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point either way. If you're going into the GTA or coming out, it's kind of a very significant
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hurdle that both parties need to get over if they wish to actually make progress in the other