For the local press the big question is what I am doing on election night. Have you planned anything with your supporters? 

I am being pressed to give an answer. As if that’s the biggest issue.

What’s happening? Where are you going to be?

Why?

Personally, I’d rather the local press ask Tom Vegh why he didn’t deliver on specific promises made to the voters in 2018. I’d like them to ask Vegh why, in his election flyers, he invents membership of task forces that don’t exist.

Why does he make false claims for keeping tax rises low? Why does he take money from people in the development industry? Why does he vote to open up 12 square miles of open countryside for development? Why does he vote against his own Mayor, John Taylor, instead of supporting him?

Why does he dissemble when the facts that contradict him are readily available?

Why wouldn’t he debate with me?

Disqualification

And why don’t they ask him how he felt about facing disqualification after the 2018 election for spending over the statutory limit on self-funding? How did he feel about being bailed out by people in the development industry?

Why didn’t he speak in the debate on John Taylor’s motion at York Regional Council to give a capital grant of $1M to save the Inn From the Cold from itself becoming homeless?

Why are our local press and media so incurious? Why don’t they just ask him?

Why does Tom Vegh lie? Serially.

No. 

They just want to ask what I am doing on election night.

Gordon Prentice 21 October 2022

Cartoon from the Comic Shop, Main Street South, 2018