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Canada’s Largest Catholic Board Sees 50% improvement

This election cycle resulted in huge pro-family progress at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), with half the seats (6 out of 12) now controlled by trustees whom we expect will vote the right way on moral issues.

During the 2022 term, only 4 out of 12 TCDSB trustees voted in line with Catholic morality. That eight-trustee majority followed an agenda of heresy, undermining biblical teaching at every turn.

So, the new TCDSB make-up represents a 50% increase in good trustees.

With half the board now onside, there exists a greater opportunity to win some battles, and to restore some of the Catholic identity that was ransacked by the previous gang.

Mantle of Spiritual Protection for our Youth

If you add up the student enrollment numbers for the three Catholic boards that have a super-majority of good trustees, plus the TCDSB which now has an even split between Christian vs. anti-Christian officials, it means that 225,000 Ontario students will now have greater spiritual protection, and be less at risk of sexualization and LGBT indoctrination.

All in all, this has been a municipal election with significant victories for parental rights in education!

By way of notable mentions, the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB), which has 55,000 students, maintained its previous level of 50% good trustees, with 5 out of 10 seats still occupied by CLC green-lit candidates.

However, the possibility still exists for the YCDSB to flip to majority control by “the good guys”, due to the fact that a couple of newly-elected trustees did not reply to CLC’s candidate survey, and therefore, their views are unknown. Let us pray they turn out to be on the side of Christ!

Likewise, in the Durham Catholic District School Board where three of CLC’s endorsed candidates were elected to the 8-member board, the possibility of “good guy” control still remains due to the fact that a couple of newly-elected trustees have not answered CLC’s questionnaire.

Public School Boards require more focus

CLC endorsed public school trustee candidates in many boards, and some of them won, but unfortunately, we obtained no majorities on any public board. For the Toronto District School Board, we had endorsed six candidates, but none were elected, getting between 3% to 14% of the vote.

We obviously have more work to do to wake up public school voters to the importance of school board elections, and to educate them on just how bad things are in the classroom.

Another critical need will be recruiting high-quality candidates to run in 2030 (or any by-elections taking place before then), who are committed to doing the hard work of knocking on doors, and handing out flyers to parents during school pick-up and drop off times.

CLC support can pull a candidate over the top in a close race, but there’s no substitute for candidates pounding the pavement themselves, as well as being active on social media. That’s just essential if you hope to win.

Gains at City and Regional Council

We’re pleased to report that four mayoral candidates endorsed by CLC were elected or re-elected in the municipalities of Barrie, Chatham-Kent, Norwich, and acclaimed in the Town of Emo.

Additionally, 12 CLC-endorsed city council candidates, plus three of our green-lit regional council candidates were elected.

We'd be remiss if we failed to mention the spectacular runs for Mayor of Hamilton and Mayor of Pickering, by openly pro-life candidates Rob Cooper and Lisa Robinson, respectively.

Rob Cooper was a serious contender for Mayor of Canada's tenth largest city, finishing second place out of 13 candidates, and garnering 32% of the total votes. He even walloped Hamilton’s former mayor, Andrea Horwath by 17 points.

Lisa Robinson, who served previously as an embattled Pickering city councillor who was harassed mercilessly by her colleagues for introducing a motion to ban the LGBT Pride flag at city hall, also came in an impressive second place position for the Mayoral contest, getting 25% of the total vote.

We hope they will both run again in the future.

Our goal for 2030 is to have the same kind of victories in city halls as we experienced at Catholic school boards in this 2026 cycle... and to boast of securing pro-life, pro-family majority councils. With God’s help, we’ll make it happen!

Impressive Contenders

Our mathematical analysis for all 237 of the municipal candidates we green-lit reveals that half of those who didn’t get elected nonetheless obtained impressive finishes in 2nd or 3rd place.

Fifty-seven candidates (or 24% of the total), finished in a competitive second place position. Another 26 candidates (or 11% of the total) finished in third place. This means that 72% of CLC’s endorsed candidates either won or finished second or third place.

As the saying goes: “Almost only counts in a game of horse shoes”. Nonetheless, the numbers suggest to us that in this election cycle, we had a high-quality crop of candidates.

These numbers may also be suggesting, if I may be so bold, that CLC’s Election Team did a good job in getting-out-the-vote and driving volunteers and lawn sign requests to the candidates.

Pro-lifers made a difference!

Many people who are disillusioned with the political process have said things to me like, “What difference does my vote make? It’s not worth the effort”.

Well, I’d like to point out that many times in this municipal election cycle, the pro-life, pro-family community definitely made all the difference between a good candidate winning or losing.

• Eight of our elected, green-lit candidates won by fewer than 150 votes. That’s a margin that CLC’s supporters easily provided to achieve the win.
   
• In four races, our green-lit candidates won by less than 100 votes!
   
• For the Hamilton City Council race in Ward 10, pro-lifer Nicole Trombetta won by just 56 votes.
   
• In the contest for Lambton Kent District School Board, our parental rights candidate Dave Pierce won by a mere 26 votes.

So, the next time you hear someone say, “There’s no point in getting involved in politics”, feel free to share these stats with them.

We would also like to directly thank every candidate who ran for public office along with their campaign teams and volunteers. Regardless of the outcome, your candidacies and campaigns gave voters a meaningful choice – the opportunity to vote with a clear conscience for someone who shares their beliefs.

The value of this cannot be overstated. Your willingness to put your name on the ballot made this possible, and for that, we are truly grateful.

In closing, we give thanks to almighty God for His blessing upon these candidates and upon CLC’s efforts to elect Godly men and women to public office. With child-like confidence in our loving Father, we will ask Him to increase His favour upon is in the next election.