After seven years of PC representation, can Liberals turn Eglinton-Lawrence red? – Toronto [Video]

When Vince Gasparro’s daughter suddenly fell ill last year, the “total chaos” he witnessed in the emergency department of a Toronto hospital spurred his desire to enter electoral politics.

Even though his daughter ultimately received “phenomenal” care, the expected wait time displayed on a clock in the ER was more than nine hours, he said.

On the way home from the hospital, Gasparro turned on the car radio and listened to a news report about provincial debt racked up under Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government.

“It was in and around that experience where I spoke to my family, spoke to friends and decided that I was going to put my name forward and I was going try to do something,” the Liberal candidate in Eglinton-Lawrence said in a recent interview.

“I just thought it was completely unacceptable that, you know, the provincial finances were in such disarray and our health-care …