Social Housing Development: Toronto Centre

Toronto Centre: When the next federal election takes place in 2015, Toronto Centre will have new borders determined by a riding redistribution process. It will be part of a new trio of electoral districts, two of which might be more accessible to the NDP, and one to the Conservatives, according to CBC. Its boundaries include the social housing development of Regent Park, the maze of apartment blocks largely populated by recent immigrants in St. Jamestown, the gay village around Church and Wellesley, the upscale Rosedale neighbourhood, and a bit of the University of Toronto and Bay Street and Toronto Centre, the quintessential downtown riding in the heart of the city left open by MP Bob Rae's sudden resignation, has been owned by the Liberals for two decades, and is likely to stay that way after a byelection, according to pollsters and political strategists. At present, Toronto Centre is one of the most finely sliced class-structured electoral districts in the country, or, as long-time NDP insider Gerald Caplan describes it, "A triple-decker riding with the fancy top, gay middle and the relatively poor south." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.