About Ryan Hobson WIKI

WIKIPEDIA PROJECT ON RYAN HOBSON

Parkdale neighbourhood, Calgary Alberta

Ryan Hobson is a senior manager for Scotia Bank, and a former Calgary resident. When Hobson set out to start his new career in politics, Hobson had only one choice.  Start a political career in Parkdale, Toronto just like his native Calgary.  Talk about a calculated political move, or as others would put is to carpet bag his way to city hall.

Ryan Hobson is supported mostly by Liberal insiders such as Elaine Flis (daughter of late MP Jesse Flis), Gerard Kennedy, one time National Director Rocco Rossi and Michael Ignatieff among others.  Hobson was late to register in May 2010 smelling vittles and Roncesvalles' frustration with the three year reconstruction project, well after Bill Vrebosch and incumbent Councillor Gord Perks. George Smitherman, a failed mayoral candidate's only visit to Parkdale-High Park was to walk Roncesvalles for a construction photo-op.

Ryan Hobson with Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy

Like most Liberals, Ryan Hobson's 2010 platform lacked any mention of crime prevention or community safety.  Transit plans were vague, broad ideas written by junior politicos in training with no mention of opposing views of David Miller's "Transit City" or Councillor Ford's plan to build more subways.  Hobson pledged to work with whoever voters of Toronto choose for mayor, and quickly joined the mushy middle of council the likes of Shelley Carroll, Michelle Berardinetti, Ana Bailão and Josh Matlow to smear newly elected Mayor Rob Ford after the election. 

RYAN HOBSON was not in attendance at the Parkdale Soap Box 
and the Parkdale Vigil Against Gun Violence.

Ryan Hobson put his and the Liberal Party's agenda before the interests of the ward, building a resume for his political career on the backs of the poor.  Hobson sat on Michael Ignatieff's executive as Membership Secretary in Etobicoke-Lakeshore and ran with mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi.  Seeing the tides turn in the October municipal election, Rossi later jumped ship to Tim Hudak's Ontario Progessive Conservatives and ran unsuccessfully in Eglinton-Lawrence. To Rossi's credit, he fared best of all Toronto ridings for the PCs.

Rocco Rossi's Spadina Expressway Tunnel

Ryan Hobson mislead voters of Parkdale into believing he was an independent, knowing full well the gravy train was over for David Miller's NDP successor, miscalculating Rob Ford's populism.  Hobson stammered to tell the truth on the September 27th, 2010 Rogers Community 10 "The Local Campaign with Dale Goldhawk" when a caller named "Michael" questioned his literature being dropped in tandem with Rocco Rossi.  

Goldhawk subsequently opened the floor and asked the candidates what their own affiliations were, if any.  Most admitted to NDP affiliations, Gord Perks, Jimmy Talpa, Michael Erickson all proud of party affiliation.  Bill Vrebosch was the only candidate able to admit to not hold a party or union membership card.  Although municipal elections in Ontario are "independent" of party, can someone so connected honestly make that claim and expect the public to believe it?

Hobson feared Spadina backlash

Ryan Hobson feared October 16th, 2010 on the electoral calendar.  Days before a protest of Dalton McGuinty and his high tax and spend government was to take place at Nathan Phillips Square, Hobson denounced Rocco Rossi's plan to bulldoze a Spadina Expressway Tunnel which was speculated to have an exit path somewhere in Parkdale.  Given Rossi's poor performance in the CP24 Mayoral Debate where Joe Pantalone took him to task on the legacy of Jane Jacobs.  Although a futile exercise for him, Hobson had only one choice but to stab his running mate in the back.

Spadina was unlikely to tunnel alongside the existing subway right of way through tony Forest Hill.  The tunnel from present day Allen Road to Spadina Avenue with highly unlikely with forty years of urbanization, if not highly impossible.  No environmental study was ever performed, The Gardiner's Dunn and Jameson Avenue exits were likely destinations given Rossi's back to back announcements of bridge technology (held in South Parkdale where long term bridge construction was taking place on the Gardiner) previously bulldozed in the 1950's.  Both locations for this Spadina tunnel were places Rossi held photo ops announcing his transit plans.

October 13, 2010 Rocco Rossi drops out of mayoral race

Although initially silent, Hobson denounced this ill thought plan days before Rossi dropped out of the city's mayoral race.  Rossi conceded defeat and acknowledged most of his supporters would likely move over to Rob Ford.  Hobson couldn't distance himself quicker with the impending announcement.

Ryan Hobson had an expensive multimillion dollar plan to fight bed bugs and proposed self empowerment of tenant rights.  Hobson's provincial Liberal counterparts at Queen's Park (McGuinty-Smitherman) should have cracked down on bad landlords to help all Ontarians.  Smitherman himself took to including the bed bug issue in his own election campaign.

Ryan Hobson seen with eHealth George Smitherman

Hobson couldn't criticize either Dalton McGuinty or George Smitherman's record or call for such improvements to tenant policy at Queen's Park as a card carrying Liberal.  Proof that Hobson was severely indebted to people above pulling his puppet strings.  The playbook Hobson was working with wasn't his own.

Bed bug infestations don't stop at the Etobicoke Creek, Bloor St. Mississauga or Bloor St. W. Toronto.  Public policy should be uniform across all Ontario municipalities and Ryan Hobson got an F for bad public policy, and an F for voter deception.

In the end, neither Ryan Hobson or George Smitherman were successful in representing Parkdale or Toronto's interests at city hall.  Torontonians were working towards a hat trick, disenfranchised with Liberal-NDP waste and mismanagement.  Tim Hudak will gain momentum in fortress Toronto between now and 2015, depending of course how quickly the Liberals want to test the electorate again.

Mayoral hopeful's first and last visit

Ryan Hobson had one foot in Etobicoke as Michael Ignatieff's Membership Secretary and the other in Parkdale.

Where do Ryan Hobson's loyalties really lie?