Meanwhile, voters in the solidly blue riding of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex elected Progressive Conservative Steve Pinsonneault
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media news source devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie openly considered running in the riding herself before tapping Galen Naidoo Harris, a federal Liberal staffer and the son of former cabinet minister and Halton MPP Indira Naidoo Harris, who was the last Liberal to win the riding. The only public polling of the Milton byelection had shown a narrow Liberal lead — and Crombie admitted in her speech to Liberals in Milton she’d thought they would win.
During the byelection, a controversy erupted at Queen's Park over the keffiyeh — the traditional Arab scarf associated with the Palestinian cause. The Speaker of the House — a Conservative MPP, but independent from the government — banned the keffiyeh from the building, deeming that it had become a political symbol in light of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
“We're one family, one team,” he said. “Sure, family disagrees sometimes, but most importantly, we all came together.”
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