Provincial Liberals: Indo Canadian

Election Prospects Dept: The Liberals insist, naturally, that it wasn’t really about politics at all. The event drew tens of thousands of visitors to Toronto, promoted the city to an estimated 800-million television viewers and opened all kinds of doors for the province’s film industry. So they can reasonably argue that the $12-million the government shelled out to land IIFA was a good investment. And given that Mr. McGuinty began wooing Bollywood in 2009, when the province was in the depths of recession, economic development was no doubt part of the equation, according to Globe And Mail. In the ridings with large Indo-Canadian populations – mostly in the suburban cities of Brampton and Mississauga – there were an awful lot of television sets tuned into Saturday night’s festivities. Members of those communities who weren’t watching the event live were certainly aware it was happening. And the event’s organizers made sure everyone knew who they should thank for it and amid the provincial Liberals’ many challenges in trying to hold onto power in this fall’s election campaign will be preventing the erosion of support in immigrant communities that has plagued their federal cousins. So it’s no wonder they’re crowing about Mr. McGuinty’s prominent role, as Toronto hosted the International Indian Film Academy ceremonies – one of the shrewder bits of pre-election manoeuvring the beleaguered government has pulled off. But at this point in the election cycle, the politics are inescapable. So it can’t be overlooked that for several Liberal incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area, their re-election prospects just got a little brighter. As reported in the news.
@t globe and mail, canadian populations