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Time to cast your ote By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star
Clockwise from top left, Marie-France Lalonde (Lib.), Steve Mansour (Cons.), Oulai B. Goué (NDP), and Jaycob Jacques (GP).
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Orléans voters will be heading to the polls on April 28 to cast their ballot in the 2025 federal election. According to the Toronto Star’s election predictor, the Signal – which takes an aggregate of the various national polls including Nanos Research and Ipsos – the Liberals had built up a four to five point lead as of April 9 after lagging far behind in the polls in December and into January. According to the same report, if sustained, a four to five point lead in support could equate to a Liberal majority. However, a lot can change in two weeks and a lot may have changed between when this paper went to press on April 12 and when it hit readers’ doorsteps this week. But whether or not enough support could swing back in favour of the Conservative Party to enable them to form the next government is questionable at best. The only question that remained to be answered with two weeks left to
go in the campaign is whether or not the Liberals could win enough seats to form a majority or remain in a minority position. Locally, the race is between Liberal incumbent Marie-France Lalonde and Conservative hopeful Steve Mansour. Lalonde is running to secure her third term in office. She was first elected in 2019 and was subsequently reelected in 2021 after capturing 50 per cent of the vote. Mansour is a 26-year-old law student who is born and raised in Orléans and is fluently bilingual. He has been involved in politics since high school and has worked for a Conservative member on Parliament Hill. If he were to beat Lalonde, he would become only the second Conservative to represent Orléans in the House of Commons since the early 1900s. The only person to hold that distinction is the late Royal Galipeau, who served in the House of Commons from 2006 to 2015. The riding’s boundaries has also been CONTINUED ON PAGE 2