They are numerous and often weird, but these outsiders bring some fresh air to the race
A 40-year-old engineer who came to Canada from Bangladesh, Faizul Mohee has never run for any public office. His only political experience is volunteering on others’ campaigns and contesting the leadership of professional associations. Yet he wants voters to elect him mayor of Canada’s biggest city.
They are excluded from the broadcast debates. Most of those feature the half dozen or so contenders who have recognized names and at least some support in the polls.With all the fixers and spin doctors and rain makers clustering around that core group, the outsiders have to get by with the help of their friends and family. Mr. Mohee has just seven or eight volunteers to help him with his canvassing and leafletting.
Some are has-beens trying to steal back into the limelight. Two veteran former city councillors are in the mix: Giorgio Mammoliti, a notorious blowhard who allied himself with mayor Rob Ford during his days of infamy and who once ripped off his shirt in city council to express his dislike for a nude beach on the Toronto Islands, and Anthony Perruzza, known for his impassioned but wandering speeches at council.
Mr. Mohee himself promises both to lower the property tax by 10 per cent and hire 5,000 more city employees, a neat bit of work even for an engineer. He is not the only one who says he will cut taxes, despite a billion-dollar hole in the city budget. Edward Gong, the controversial entrepreneur who has plastered the city with his blue-and-yellow campaign signs, says he will give taxpayers a $1,000 rebate if they spend it on fixing up their houses.
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