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Conservative campaign snowballs<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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By Robert Frank<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Grassroot support is growing rapidly for Roland Dick [pronounced \u2018deeke\u2019]. The Conservative candidate in Laval les \u00celes riding has already attracted more than 130 volunteers, with dozens more signing up each week, reported campaign manager Ailsa Pehi.<\/p>\n

Party brass have noticed and have lavished Laval with more political attention than the city has ever seen.<\/p>\n

Last week, the latest cabinet minister to make the pilgrimage was Public Safety Minister Steve Blaney, who attended a $1,000-a-plate party fundraiser that attracted about\u00a060 community leaders from across Laval\u2019 ethnic spectrum: including Armenians, Greeks, Lebanese and Muslims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe tectonic plates are shifting here,\u201d Blaney told The Suburban.<\/em> \u201cThey want change and prefer to have a strong Laval voice at the decision table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riding residents have responded positively to Dick\u2019s populist profile, which he honed in municipal politics during the past seven years with the city\u2019s ruling Mouvement lavallois party. A slick video on his website has already attracted nearly 17,000 views.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can feel it,\u201d Dick said in an interview. \u201cPeople already know me when I knock on their door or when I meet them in shopping malls. They want me to bridge the longstanding gap between Laval and Ottawa. We\u2019re already well-represented in Quebec City, and it\u2019s about time we had good representation in Ottawa: Laval needs in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Blaney stressed the Conservative\u2019s track record of putting money back in taxpayers\u2019 pockets, and directing support to society\u2019s neediest and most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome 380,000 fewer elderly people pay income tax since we lowered the threshold for paying,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Blaney chided outgoing NDP MP Fran\u00e7ois Pilon for obstructing hikes to poor pensioners\u2019 incomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first vote that Pilon cast after he was elected was against a large increase in the guaranteed income supplement for seniors\u00a0who have no income other than the old age security pension,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With support for the separatist Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois party collapsing, Blaney credited Prime Minister Stephen Harper for restoring peace in Quebec, in contrast with the constant constitutional conflict of the preceding Liberal era.<\/p>\n

\u201cStephen Harper has put the constitutional issue to rest,\u201d he declared. \u201cHe deserves credit for that. It\u2019s a major achievement to have made Quebecers feel comfortable in Canada, feel respected and share common values that bring people together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve also boosted social transfers to Quebec for health and education to nearly $20 billion,\u201d Blaney said.<\/p>\n

Thomas Mulcair\u2019s NDP has also committed to reopen Pandora\u2019s box by applying the province\u2019s restrictive language laws to the federal sphere in Quebec, and reducing the threshold for an independence vote.<\/p>\n

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(Left to right) Laval les \u00celes candidate Roland Dick\u2019s grassroots campaign is gaining traction, acknowledged Conservative cabinet minister Steven Blaney, Sept. 9.\u00a0(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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