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Originally Posted by daud
Was disappointed to see Michael Qaqish go. Despite what a few people complained about, he was very active and very responsive to the community. While I don't know to what degree he influenced certain decisions, on his watch, we saw LRT approval extended into the community with the help of developers and he pushed up the bank and leitrim intersection construction to next year. He seemed to work a few files that involved getting developers to pitch in to speed up transportation projects.
He was a regular at all the community events and served Ward 22 well.
Carole Anne Meehan will be interesting to watch. She's lived in the community for a long time, has a very good background in civic issues being a broadcaster and news personality for so long. She also is talking transportation which is the major issue in ward 22. My only concern with her is that she may not be fully cognizant of just how many hours these councillors put in. So we'll see what happens but we were lucky in our ward as we had 3 really good candidates to choose from (Qaqish, Meehan, Singh)
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Qaqish was not a bad councillor, I think Carole Anne Meehan's name recognition along with the reports of Qaqish's excessive spending compared to other councillors really played against him.
The biggest reason he lost was probably Harpreet Singh though, Singh ate away a lot of his voter base.