Candidates hit GTA on election day
Posted May 2, 2011 9:46 am.
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Polls are open in Ontario and the federal leaders have hit the GTA for one last push for votes.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was spotted at the Royal York subway station, while recent finance minister Jim Flaherty was out in the early morning hours near Thickson and Highway 401 in Whitby.
“The campaign has gone well. It’s the seventh time I’ve run here and I come out here at six o’clock every election day and you can gauge the reaction of people. It’s good,” Flaherty told CityNews.
NDP leader Jack Layton cast his vote alongside his wife and fellow NDP candidate Olivia Chow at the Cecil Communty Centre in Toronto.
“Well, we’ve worked hard and I think Canadians have come to the conclusion that they actually do have a choice. It’s a very positive thing, to break out of the old patterns and the old habits and really see if we can’t fix up Ottawa,” Layton told reporters.
Two of the party leaders will be in Toronto as the results come in: Ignatieff will await the verdict at the Sheraton Centre Hotel, and Layton will be watching the results at the Intercontinental Hotel. Conservative leader Stephen Harper, meanwhile, will be in Calgary.
