VOTE 2022: What you need to know about the Thornhill riding

Laura Mirabella, Laura Smith, Daniella Mikanovsky and Jasleen Kambo

Yorkregion.com
May 10, 2022
Simone Joseph

THE RIDING: Thornhill

POPULATION: 112,720 * based on 2016 census data.

Comprised of: (a) that part of the City of Vaughan lying easterly of Highway No. 400 and southerly of Rutherford Road; and

(b) that part of the Town of Markham lying westerly of Bayview Avenue. (Taken from https://www.elections.on.ca)

THE RACE: (Include hyperlinks to profiles of candidates.)

Liberal: Laura Mirabella

Conservative: Laura Smith

Green: Daniella Mikanovsky

NDP: Jasleen Kambo

Liberal: Laura Mirabella

Laura Mirabella is an accountant who has spent the last 20 years in senior public service roles including CFO for the City of Vaughan and York Region. She has also spent 10 years in the private sector with a major professional advisory firm, and as a small business consultant

Thornhill’s big issues according to Mirabella:

Housing - Ford has stomped all over locally approved plans for density that makes sense. Through his continued abuse of the MZO system with a plan to build 67 towers, of up to 80 stories with  no requirement for affordable housing, insufficient infrastructure and community amenities, and very little in the way of employment opportunities. Other issues:

Yonge subway extension and the pandemic.

Conservative: Laura Smith

Smith is a seasoned legal professional, having owned and managed a litigation support company within the GTA.  Smith is a director with the Thornhill Thunder Soccer Club and a former vice president of a local co-operative nursery school. Smith has worked alongside  Member of Provincial Parliament, Gila Martow as the president of Thornhill’s PC’s Riding Association.

NDP: Jasleen Kambo

Youth Rep. for HRBC NDP Executive Council and an environmentalist

Green: Daniella Mikanovsky  

Mikanovsky lives in Thornhill with her parents, sisters, and dog Lucca. A recent university graduate, she is thrilled to be back in the community she grew up in and loves.