For the first time, Jim Wilson will not have brick-and-mortar offices for his reelection campaign.
Wilson, the incumbent Ontario PC MPP in Simcoe-Grey, has instead launched a website as the campaign headquarters and will be mobilizing volunteers to deliver election signs and take care of the same details they would from an office.
There are also campaign phone numbers for anyone who doesn’t want to or cannot use the website.
Instead of holding an event to open a campaign office, Wilson launched his reelection campaign by delivering the first official lawn sign to a resident in Wasaga Beach on May 10. He followed that visit with one to Stayner, Alliston and Beeton.
Wilson said he was apprehensive at first about not having a campaign office, but his team assured him the offices during the last reelection campaign were not busy with drop ins, but did receive many phone calls to arrange sign delivery. He said an online campaign headquarters was also more fair to all the towns included in the Simcoe-Grey riding.
“Now you can click a button and order a lawn sign,” said Wilson, adding an office space that gets little use is “not a good use of taxpayer dollars.”
Wilson put his first official lawn sign in the boulevard at the home of Mike Krizanc, who moved to Wasaga Beach two years ago.
Wilson said this will be his third election running on the local hospital issue. He said both Collingwood and Alliston need new hospitals and both projects are in the second stage of a $14 million planning process. He also noted the Georgian Triangle Hospice, a privately/donation funded build has ten beds, but the government only funds six and won't allow the other four to be opened even with alternative funding.
Wilson also mentioned his party is campaigning on lowering hydro rates and reducing corporate tax by one per cent while also eliminating "corporate welfare."
"The government would no longer get to pick the winners or losers," he said, adding the one per cent of taxation used in corporate welfare would instead be split evenly between all Ontario corporations by way of a tax reduction.
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