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Tilson to run for Federal Parliament
January 23, 2004 permalink
According to today's Orangeville Citizen, David Tilson, champion of Children's Aid, will run for the nomination as the Conservative candidate for the riding of Dufferin-Peel. The nomination meeting is to occur on March 7. The article quotes Mr. Tilson as saying:
There are several ways in which someone can represent a riding. One is dealing with constituency problems, people that have problems with the government. How you deal with those problems are very similar from Queen's Park and in Ottawa. The second way you represent your riding is making sure your riding's interests have been heard on any kind of issue".
David Tilson has been a champion of Children's Aid in the past, and publicly lauded the law firm representing Children's Aid. When he was the MPP for Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey, he appeared regularly in the press smiling next to Children's Aid Society workers. Mr. Tilson's wife, Judith Birchall, is a lawyer who practices family law. The experience of Dufferin VOCA is that in the past Mr. Tilson did not hear the voice of people that have problems with Children's Aid.
