Dear Parkdale-High Park Members,
Volunteers, Donors & Supporters:
It has been my great pleasure to work with
and get to know you over the past few years.
Over the past 4 years, I’ve worked hard to
be the provincial Liberal candidate here in our home riding of Parkdale-High
Park for the upcoming provincial election. You were very kind to me at your
doors, in coming out for fundraising events, and in the community when I asked
for your continued support. Thank you sincerely for standing with me.
I got involved in the political process
because I sincerely want to make a difference in people’s lives for the better.
I am a lawyer and as such ethics and integrity are very important to me. So after
coming so close to winning in 2014, I persevered and continued to work in good
faith because I knew I could do a good job of representing this riding.
Since the last election I have:
Knocked on well over
20,000 doors in the last two years with a view to building a winning and strategic
coalition for the 2018 election;
Listened to
thousands of our smart, caring riding residents in those engagements, and used
those conversations to build riding specific policy ideas for the coming
election;
Worked on
housing issues in the riding that I care about and are important to riding
residents – including:
·
Advocating for our community on
sustainable development issues at city council;
·
Writing multiple housing
submissions to the provincial government on landlord and tenant issues;
Volunteered for
over two years at a church community meals outreach program in Parkdale and
continuing to serve on the Parkdale food bank board;
Helped hundreds
of residents with their education, healthcare, housing, immigration and legal
needs;
Built riding
association resources from $0 to over $50,000, leading with successful, well
attended grass root fundraisers with accessible ticket prices;
Raised over $50,000
for the Ontario Liberal Party separate and apart from riding resources.
But I have come to believe that the path
for me to continue to make a difference for the people here in Parkdale-High
Park is not with the Ontario Liberal Party in 2018. This was a very difficult
personal decision to make, especially after all the hard work over the past few
years, but it is one that I have firmly made after much consideration around
all of the circumstances involved.
I ask for your understanding and hope to
see you soon. I am not finished with public service by a long shot and I look
forward to ongoing dialogue and engagements with the residents of this
community.
Thank you again for your support and
friendship. All best wishes to you and family.
Sincerely,
Nancy Leblanc