Liberal MPP Stands Up For Racing

Published: April 18, 2012 03:05 pm EDT

On Tuesday, April 17 in Toronto's Queen's Park Legislature, Liberal MPP Kim Craitor (Niagara Falls) stood up for both his convictions and those of many of his constituents when he read petitions into record in support of Ontario's horse-racing industry

, a bold move in direct opposition to the political stance of his party.

As explained in an article by Bullet News Niagara, Craitor could have simply given the petitions to a legislative clerk, but he chose to stand and read the position into record, a move which overtly showed his support for the measure.

“I’m doing what I can,” Craitor was quoted as saying Tuesday night. “I’m not giving up hope.”

The petitions, which contained roughly 3,200 signatures, were collected during a recent Queen's Park rally in support of the Ontario horse-racing industry. Craitor read the petitions into record, as promised, to a solid round of applause from opposition MPPs in attendance.

The Fort Erie Race Track falls within Craitor's riding, and the historic thoroughbred raceway is just one of the provincial racetracks which would be decimated by the reigning Ontario Liberal Party's ignorant and economically illogical decision to step away from the mutually beneficial slots-at-racetracks agreement.

The Bullet News Niagara article also explains that Craitor has backed a proposal by the Town of Fort Erie and the Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium to take over operation of the raceway slots parlour and to run it as a not-for-profit corporation. Craitor has also been lobbying his own government to consider the proposal.

(With files from Bullet News Niagara)

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