08 05 02	Adrena Lynn 38.112.12.110
First, anyone noticed since Khan's little incident with Elections Canada, all his public appearances in the riding have been absent of cabinet members? Ministers used to fawn over at appearing with one of their MPs who was actually from one of the immigrant groups that the Tories have been courting. Looks like Khan's not as special as he used to be; Harper did not reinstate him as his special mideast advisor, and there's been no mention of Khan ever being in that post again. Second, I've noticed Khan making a lot of Members' Statements in the House about immigration policy. Seems he's trying to make himself look good, but unfortunately he keeps using the words 'head tax'. I don't think this idea of pandering to the Chinese vote will help him get elected.
	08 04 25	I'm Always Right 24.150.237.186
It's looking more and more like the Liberals will bring down the Harper government on the immigration issue. I don't think the Liberals can afford not to force an election on this because their base is first generation Canadians in ridings like Miss-Streetsville. If that is the issue that forces an election, it will be an easy victory for the Liberals in this riding as Khan will be wiped out by angry constituents concerned about anything that would make coming to Canada tougher to do. This will be an easy win for the Liberals.
	08 04 12	Hannah Montana 216.13.88.86
This is a case of the Tories not being happy that they have to work for Wajid Khan and the Grits angry about Khan jumping parties and all wound up to take this district back. Key Tories in this district are going to sit this election out as they can't work for Khan. Mississauga-Streetsville voted heavily for the Grits last time and will do the same again, thanks to the Tories and their planned changes to Canada's immigration laws. Easy Grit victory in this district.
	08 03 22	Curley, Larry and Moe 24.244.244.114
There are so many reasons by Mississauga-Streetsville will return to the Liberals. We'll pick a couple. First off Wajid Khan is seen as a laughing stock in this community. Key Conservatives we talk to here have to grit their teeth to deal with the guy. Secondly, Mississauga is in our opinion the strongest Liberal area of support in Ontario and here's why. In Toronto, the Liberals have to deal with the NDP but in this area the social democrats are a fringe party fighting in out with the Green Party in the single digits. Mississauga-Brampton will elect nothing but Liberals and Wajid Khan gets what's coming to him.
	08 03 21	R.O. 209.91.149.204
This will be an interesting race whenever the next election comes it will be a face off between former liberal mp turned conservative Wajid Khan and Bonnie Crombie new liberal candidate. The riding leans liberal but Wajid Khan has been the mp since 2004 so he is fairly well known. But I image the liberals will put a lot of effort into this riding in an attempt to take it back and same for the conservatives as they try to hold it. Buts its too early to say what will happen here and its hard to get a good feel as to how the switch of parties and elections Canada incident have gone over with the ridings large immigrant population.
	08 03 10	Peg Leg Pete 99.234.197.75
Conservatives like seesaw dream of breaking through in Peel Region but that's all it is, a dream. Seesaw claims that first generation immigrants don't support the Liberals. Hello! Can you give me a riding anywhere in Canada with a large immigrant population that is currently held by the Conservatives? Mississauga-Streetsville will return to the Liberal fold in the next election as the GTA is once again no mans land for the Conservatives. I predict the Liberals win by 6000 votes.
	08 02 07	165.21.28.117
Khan was not ‘freed of charges’. He pleaded guilty to exceeding his 2004 election campaign spending limit by more than $30,000, and was fined by Elections Canada.
	08 02 06	24.81.18.126
I believe Khan was freed of charges. He will be re-elected; this riding was on the verge of going Conservative in 2006. As long as Dion is at the helm of the Liberal Party with no substantial policy or platform, Khan will re-take this seat as a Conservative.
	08 01 28	Don't Tase Me, Bro! 99.230.121.239
Ever since Khan got charged by Elections Canada, he's been virtually invisible. An MP asked me a week ago if I'd seen him, ironic because he's the one that works with him every day! The Liberal vote is there, and Bonnie Crombie has been working extremely hard to mobilize and get ready for the next election. She will be elected as the new MP.
	08 12 31	seasaw 99.225.19.235
This is a typical 905 area riding. Is it a Liberal riding, like everyone seems to suggest? No, not by a long shot! Lots of immigrants, mean lots of Liberal votes, right ? Wrong, it's almost 2008 and not 1968, the Liberals no longer have a lock on immigrant votes. Let's look at the voting patterns of the typical 905 riding. In every election, whether federal or provincial, unless there's a strong appetite for change ( '84f, '03p ), which isn't present now, or a great deal of discontent, which doesn't seem to be here now, ridings like this tend to vote for the party with the stronger, more experienced leader ( federally Mulrony over Turner, Chretien over Anybody, Martin over Harper ), and provincially ( Peterson over Grossman/Rae, Harris over McLeod/McGuinty, McGuinty over Tory ), the leadership experience edge, at the present time seem to belong to Harper. It is quite likely that Harper could sweep 905, the way Harris did, in which case the Libs could have Jesus Christ as their candidate, and they still won't win. But, it is too early to predict, we don't even know if we're going to have an election in '08 or '09. A lot can happen between now and then.
	07 11 28	Daniel 156.34.74.171
Khan faced an uphill battle here, even before these latest allegations. Now I feel pretty certain that, barring some sort of Conservative sweep of Missisauga, Khan is done for. Bonnie Crombie is a more amicable figure than Mr. Khan, and I doubt that Khan will pull many personal votes with him to the Conservatives - indeed, he may end up pushing softer Conservative votes to the Liberals.
	07 11 27	Cantelope 99.230.121.239
Also consider the possibility that Wajid Khan may not be allowed to stand as the Tory candidate if the charges stick. Remember in 2006 when two B.C candidates from the Tories and Grits were caught up in legal problems and were immediately dismissed as their respective parties' candidates in the middle of the campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to Khan as well, before the election.
	07 11 25	Streetsville Voter 99.230.121.239
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071123/khan_charges_071123/20071123?hub=Politics Enough said!
	07 11 24	binriso 156.34.226.67
Ok so now that Khan is embroiled in one of those campaign overspending fiascos like what happened to Blair Wilson, I think it is safe to say that if he runs again here he will lose. Even if he is exonerated or they get another candidate, it still looks bad from an image perspective and the CPC will lose here unless they are way ahead of the Liberals, which is unlikely in Ontario. Heck Mulroney only beat Turner by 17 points in Ontario in the disaster of 1984, which is the best the PC's/CPC has ever done in Ontario in recent elections. With the ever changing demographics since then favouring the Liberals (Specifically Immigration and growth in the 416/905, which makes the entire 416 and a large part of the 905 a CPC wasteland) I think the best that Harper can hope for in the next election is a marginally higher vote than the Liberals in Ontario and ~50 seats.
	07 11 24	PY 70.51.140.53
I will resist the urge to scream ‘Khan!’ at the top of my lungs and say that his political career is dead thanks to charges related to election overspending. Now the Tories will have to scramble to find another candidate in light of the ones they've already tossed aside. That said, Bonnie Crombie wins in a cakewalk.
	07 11 11	binriso 156.34.236.173
I think im going to go against the majority opinion and give it to Wajid Khan. Obviously the fact that he switched parties should earn him extra attention not to mention the CPC did really well here last time. I think Harper and the party will put in just enough extra effort to keep this seat by a close margin. Not to mention polls now put the CPC with a double-digit lead federally and ahead in Ontario by a few points.
	07 06 27	Alex 142.108.163.177
Mr Khan can only win this election if the Tories sweep Ontario or if the Bonnie Crombie Liberal Campaign lacks the organizational prowess to mount an effective campaign. The latter I don?t believe will happen because Bonnie?s campaign has already shown its capability in the Liberal Nomination meeting. Bonnie ran against 6 other candidates and still won with a 70% landslide. Contrary to what a previous writer on this website said Bonnie?s nomination was not only gained by ?hired help? from downtown. Bonnie herself is a terrific fundraiser and organizer and used much more local people than downtown people. Mr Khan won only because Mississauga-Streetsville is a Liberal riding and the party he used to represent was in the favour of the majority of the constituents. It is na?ve of him to think people actually voted for him rather than the Liberal party. My prediction is that Bonnie landslides the riding because of the political machine she has set up and because the constituents of Mississauga-Streetsville and sick and tired of Wajid Khan?s selfish politics.
	07 06 22	Paul 74.96.21.225
Even going back to this riding's predecessor (Brampton West-Mississauga) it has been a safe Liberal riding since 1993. In 2004, Khan took this riding with over 50% of the votes and doubtfully on the strength of this name but a strong Liberal contingency in the riding. His decision to cross the floor and turn his back on these supporters will not work in his favour. Harper picked the 905 Liberal to coddle over to the Conservatives.
	07 06 17	X Marks The Spot 69.158.48.176
Wajid Khan made the egotistical fatal error of somehow (in his fantasy world) of thinking that the majority of people voted for HIM and not for the Liberal party in 2006. Thinking that he has the ‘swing power’ of a Belinda Stronach is foolhardy. Wajid Khan was elected twice for one reason and one reason only - he represented the party of choice in Mississauga Streetsville. Khan's ego will be rightly deflated during the next election, when he realizes that it is not HE who won in Mississauga Streetsville, but the Liberal Party. This is a safe Liberal riding, and Khan's political career is currently on life support.
	07 04 28	Streetsville Voter 72.137.231.243
If Stephen Harper puts considerable resources into this riding, Khan would win by a small margin. If not, it looks like Bonnie Crombie could become the next MP by default.
	07 04 25	Full Name 72.137.231.243
I would say after evaluating Mr. Khan's performance as a Conservative, he has done modestly well. I still don't agree with the deceptive nature of the floor crossing he did, but he has managed to produce some marginal results. He finally got the funding for the BRT for Mississauga after the Liberals basically ignored that issue when they were in government, and I've seen photos of him in Afghanistan, so there is some dialog going on over there and I hope he's learning something important to bring back to the PM. It's really going to be down the wire, but I think Wajid could pull off an upset by the slimmest of margins (say by 10 votes maybe?)
	07 04 23	A C Branston 64.229.156.53
For the most part Wajid Khan's performance has been uninspiring. He won in 2004 and 2006 largely because he was a Liberal and not because he was Wajid Khan. Although, it is arguable that more 905 voters have warmed to the Conservatives since January 2006, Khan does not really embody Harper Conservative principles. In fact, it's hard to detect any principles in his motivation to switch other than a deep-seated desire to travel. If he does win, and I suspect he won't, it will be just barely.
	07 04 18	Steve L. 128.189.232.129
Wajid Khan does have some baggage to him besides the floor crossing (i.e. his ‘report’...). crossed the floor, chip away a few hundred votes maybe. his un-forthcoming report, chip away a few hundred more votes maybe. and then he's not really safe.
	07 04 05	Nick J Boragina 74.99.228.118
Unlike the recent commentators, I'm not going to take a swipe at the site owner because he happens to be a party member. I am a party member myself, a card carrying conservative, yet despite that I'm not sure if Khan can win here. This is going to be close however, we won’t know until later on just how well things are going here. Khan will surly take some votes along with him. If he can take 2,500 votes from the Liberals to the Conservatives he can win. Even if the other 20,000 liberals are ‘angry’, it won’t matter. Look at what happened to Belinda Stronach. Conservatives were furious with her, and the Tories nearly doubled their seat count in the province, yet she still held on to her riding as a Liberal. Crossing the floor works when your riding is close. That being said, the 905 area is in the GTA, and the tories have had trouble here. Harper might win votes with his pro-family stance, but Mississauga is borderline urban-suburban, so even that might not work.
	07 04 03	A.S. 74.99.222.209
First, for the sake of open democracy (hey, it's a game), I'm glad to see that ?this site's rather partisan owner? saw fit to include rather than delete or censor that post by ?Streetsville voter?. Second, the split/crippled riding association issue didn't, in the end, prevent Michael Ignatieff's Etobicoke-Lakeshore victory--fortunately or unfortunately, depending on where one stands (and for transparency's sake, ?this site's rather partisan owner? was involved in that one, too). And third, for all the party-switch hype, if one remembers past EPP goarounds (including all the plumping for Nina Tangri in '04), this would seem the perfect 905 Liberal seat where voters chose the party more than the person per se--Wajid Khan was always more a placeholder than a caucus star, and always carried that, er, slimy-car-salesman-with-a-bad-rug thing about him. If he hadn't run for the Liberals, he could just as well have been pursued by and run (without a hope in blazes) for Conservative/Reform/Alliance forces--*back then*. Still, ?Streetsville voter? has a point. By default, this Liberal nonentity with no profile has become a Conservative non-nonentity with profile; and the 11-point 2006 margin is ?within reach?--BTW as proof of how ugly-racialized politics can be, there was a freakish '06 jump in the NDP vote, likely due to a non-Asian running against two South Asian frontrunners. It all depends on whether the Liberal label still carries autopilot clout in the multihued urban 905, esp. now that it isn't the Liberals in federal power--but keep in mind re that '06 NDP result: the present Liberal nominee *isn't* Asian. Somehow, unless we're facing an '84-scale Liberal catastrophe, I can see Wajid Khan as less likely to survive than Garth Turner (hey, it's Garth Turner, after all)...
	07 04 03	Streetsville voter 74.99.95.102
The nomination win is in no way a sign of Crombie's organizational strength. Her so call ‘machinary’ was headed by downtown hired-gun Liberal organizers (and none other than this site's rather partisan owner) Milton Chan and Alexis Levine and operated by their downtown buddies. Chan also ran Bob Rae's nomination day in the same week and is managing a pile of other nomination campaigns. Levine is already named campaign manager for Michael Ignatieff. Crombie is just one of their mini-project and none of these folks are going to be there for Crombie during the general election. With half the riding association left with Khan, Crombie will not have the organization to mount a serious campaign.
	07 04 01	EP 129.173.251.111
The hotly contested Liberal nomination is a sure sign that they are organized enough to take this back from Wajid Khan. Seven candidates, four of them serious, contested the nomination and the eventual winner, Bonnie Crombie, took the nomination with 70% on first ballot. She may not be well known but the nomination campaign clearly showed that she has the mechinary to deliver the votes. Khan, being a turncoat, is unlikely to have the wholehearted support of local conservatives. He will also continue to be grilled for the taxpayer-tabbed ‘special convoy report’ that no one can confirm its existence. Most importantly, Conservatives are going to be focusing on swing ridings like Missisauga South or Brampton West.
	07 03 27	Brian 129.173.251.111
Wajid Khan wasn't the most popular individual at the best of times, but he was elected because of his party. People's opinions certainly aren't going to improve based on his various antics over the past year. This riding will go Liberal, and it'll be pretty embarrassing for the Tories when it does.
	07 03 22	Dr Bear & Prof Ape 74.15.40.135
Khan's floor crossing didn't have the controversy that Emerson's did and unlike in Vancouver Kingsway, most people were probably okay with it. With incumbency, the CPC targeting Mississauga, a strong conservative element to the riding and Liberal numbers being stagnant, we give the nod to the CPC here. Should Liberal fortunes improve (and they certainly may since an election is some time off), this may be recaptured by the Grits.
	07 03 22	sdfj 74.108.19.47
THis is going to be interesting. Streetsville has been a staunch liberal riding, I dont think Khan can win this one as a conservative. Even if he were to win it would be by the smallest of all margins, but if he loses then by the biggest. It will be the one of the most interesting riding on election night. I call this for the Liberals!
	07 03 21	M. Lunn 74.99.130.109
Wajid Khan is a nobody here and won't win because of his personal popularity. He will only win if Harper is able to get the 905 belt onside, which is possible, but not likely.