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Five provincial by-elections were held in Ontario (Canada) on August 1, 2013 in the ridings of Etobicoke-Lakeshore, London West, Ottawa South, Scarborough-Guildwood and Windsor-Tecumseh. These seats fell vacant between early February and late June 2013, after their incumbent MPPs all five Liberals, including a former Premier and three other former provincial cabinet ministers resigned discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela their seats.
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In October 2011 , Premier Dalton McGuinty s provincial Liberals won a third straight term in office; but unlike in 2003 and 2007, they fell short by a single seat of winning a majority government. Therefore, for the first time since gaining power in 2003, the Liberals have been forced to work with other parties to pass legislation.
Ontario s economy has been struggling in the past few years, a far cry from the days where Canada s most populous province was seen as the country s economic/industrial powerhouse. Indeed, Ontario s manufacturing-driven and export-oriented economy has been badly hurt by subdued domestic activity and declining demand from the US. Economic growth slowed to 1.5% in 2012 and is forecast to remain low in 2013, although growth could increase by 2014 if US growth accelerates. The provincial government has been forced to deal with, since 2008-2009, a very large deficit discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela and ballooning public debt. The 2013-2014 deficit projection is $11.8 billion, up from a $9.8 billion deficit in 2012-2013; the province s debt stands at 37.5% of GDP and should increase to 40% by 2015-2016. The size of Ontario s debt and deficit has led some fiscally conservative economists to liken Ontario to California and Greece.
The Liberal government introduced a severe discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela austerity-minded budget in 2012, including major cuts in government spending and services and a two-year pay freeze for public sector employees (including teachers and doctors). The opposition Progressive Conservatives (PCs), led by Tim Hudak, rejected the budget out of hand, claiming it did not do enough to curb "runaway spending" and debt. The Liberals were forced to reach a compromise with the centre-left New Democrats (NDP), led by Andrea Horwath. In April, the NDP agreed to prop up the government in return for the inclusion of a tax on high incomes, although in June the province seemed to be on the verge of an election when the NDP and the PCs started voting against key planks of the budget. McGuinty threatened to call an election until the NDP blinked and abstained on the final vote, allowing the Liberal government to survive its first supply vote.
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The power plant scandal was one of the major factors which led Premier McGuinty to announce his surprise resignation on October 15. However, at the same time, the outgoing Premier discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela prorogued Parliament effectively killing off the opposition s contempt motion.
The Liberal leadership election on January 26, 2013 opposed six candidates the top three being former MPP and cabinet minister Sandra discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela Pupatello, incumbent cabinet minister Kathleen Wynne and former provincial cabinet minister and former federal Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy. Kathleen Wynne, considered as being on the left of the party, won on the third ballot at the convention, with 57% against 43% for Pupatello.
The Liberals, who had dropped to third place and oscillating in the low-to-mid 20s, saw their support increase considerably discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela after Wynne s election, shooting into second or first place and over 30% in some cases over 35%. There were rumours unfounded that Wynne would seek a mandate of her own and take advantage of her honeymoon.
In May 2013, the NDP once again backed the Liberals 2013 budget, which included a few NDP-influenced goodies (15% cut in auto insurance, new funding for youth jobs etc) while continuing with the government s stated intent to achieve a surplus in 2017-2018. Two of the NDP s three post-budget demands were satisfied by the Liberals. The gas plant scandal has continued discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela to hurt the Liberals, with recent revelations of Liberal cover-ups or attempts to intimidate the speaker. Wynne has been unable to shake off the perception that she is only a new face on the McGuinty Liberal government, rather than a clear break with McGuinty s tainted legacy.
Etobicoke-Lakeshore covers the southern portion of the former city of Etobicoke in western Toronto. The riding, which borders Lake Ontario to the south and the Humber River to the east, includes neighborhoods such as Mimico, New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood, The Queensway or Eatonville.
The seat fell vacant in July when the Liberal incumbent, former education minister Laurel Broten resigned, apparently to move to Nova Scotia. Broten, who first won her seat in 2003, served as McGuinty s Minister of Education between 2011 and 2013, and became closely associated with the government s push against teacher s unions over pay, benefits and Bill 115. She was shuffled to Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs after Wynne became Premier, but she resigned effective July 2.
Taken as a whole, Etobicoke-Lakeshore is a fairly middle-class and white-collar riding. It has a high percentage of residents with a university diploma or degree (33.5%), a high percentage of residents employed in managerial occupations or business/finance/administration (34%) and a fairly high median household income ($58,088 in 2005). Only 7.9% of the riding s labour force is employed in manufacturing. Demographically, 23.8% of the riding s inhabitants are visible minorities, a rather high proportion by provincial or national standards, but the lowest of all Toronto ridings. discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela South Asians (4.6% of the population) form the largest single visible minority group. That being said, a significantly larger percentage of the riding s residents discount airline fares betweeen paris and venezuela are immigrants 39.5% (27.7% of which immigrated after 2001).
Etobicoke-Lakeshore is home to one of the largest Eastern European populations in all of Canada: 21.7% of the riding s residents are of Eastern European ancestry, most of them Polish (10% of the population) or Ukrainian (7.6%). As a result, it has a large Catholic (40.8%) and Eastern Orthodox (5.9%) popula