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Barrie-Springwater-Oro Medonte Libs pick a president

Former MPP to lead the new riding's Provincial Liberal Association
vote shutterstock_382946677 2016

NEWS RELEASE
BARRIE-SPRINGWATER-ORO MEDONTE PROVINCIAL LIBERAL ASSOCIATION
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BARRIE - Following a successful founding meeting, the Barrie–Springwater–Oro Medonte Provincial Liberal Association is excited to announce that former local MPP Bruce Owen will be leading the new riding’s Liberal Association as president in this election year. 

“Our team is hard at work preparing for this June’s provincial election, now just some 83 days away,” said Owen, a Barrie lawyer. “We are in the process of nominating our candidate to join a very strong Simcoe County slate of Ontario Liberal Party candidates, including incumbent MPP Ann Hoggarth in Barrie–Innisfil, County Warden Gerry Marshall in Simcoe North, recent school board Chair Loralea Carruthers in York–Simcoe and college professor Dan Hambly in Simcoe–Grey.”

The new provincial riding encompasses an area including the north of Barrie, the townships of Springwater and the western portion of Oro-Medonte.

People who wish to join the Association, want to volunteer to help in the coming campaign or wish to put their names forward as a potential candidate, should email the Barrie–Springwater–Oro Medonte Provincial Liberal Association at [email protected].

Under the leadership of Premier Kathleen Wynne, the Ontario Liberal Party has a plan that is creating opportunity and fairness during this period of rapid economic change and uncertainty.

Ontario's economy is growing, but too many families are not experiencing the benefits of that growth. That’s why the Ontario Liberal plan has stepped up to make tuition free for 225,000 students, provide free prescription drug coverage for children and youth, build 100,000 affordable child-care spaces, and raise the minimum wage to $15-an-hour.

The Conservatives have vowed to undo the minimum wage increase because no matter who their leader is, it is the same old Conservative Party. While a Liberal government is focused on investing in care and providing better supports for caregivers, the Conservatives remain focused on cutting health care and education and jeopardizing the services Ontarians rely on by firing 40,000 workers.

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