York-Simcoe has re-elected Progressive Conservative candidate Julia Munro.
Munro defeated Liberal Loralea Carruthers, NDP Laura Bowman, and Green Party Peter Elgie. CTV News called the riding at 9:42 p.m.
Munro, the Attorney General since Sept. 30, 2013, has also been the critic of seniors and retirement security and second deputy chair of the committee of the whole house since 2011.
She has also been Critic for Small Business, Consumer Services and Red Tape. She was first elected in 1995 and was Parliamentary Assistant in Culture and Transportation.
Munro has also led government reviews of the voluntary sector, the Heritage Act, program evaluation and regulatory changes in transportation. She also was PA to the Chair of Management Board and Government Whip.
Born in Hamilton and raised in the Toronto area, she has a U of T BA and a B.Ed. and taught high school in the area 28 years. She and her husband John live in Georgina and have one adult daughter.
Riding Profile
Along the Holland River is the vegetable-growing area of the Holland Marsh.
The rapidly-growing area has a relatively high median family income and a high degree of home ownership. York stretches from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe. It includes the towns of East Gwillimbury and Georgina; the part of the Township of King lying north of Highway 9; and in Lake Simcoe, Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation Indian Reserve.
East Gwillimbury is half the size of Georgina and on the East Holland River. The river from where it empties into Cook’s Bay, Lake Simcoe, to just north of Toronto has a marsh that has been mostly drained and produces all market vegetables.
From the County of Simcoe the riding has the towns of Innisfil with a lot of single-family homes and commuters; and Bradford-West Gwillimbury, which very involved with the marsh and farming and has a large market
