Gilroy seizes Daniel McIntyre after close race

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Cindy Gilroy prevailed this time, after coming so close in 2010, to win the crowded Daniel McIntyre council race by 591 votes over runner-up Keith Bellamy.

Incumbent and long-time councillor Harvey Smith came in third at 3,284.

“People were really ready for a change,” said Gilroy 41. “We really knocked on the doors this time. That was the big difference over 2010.”

She said infrastructure needs, affordable housing and social concerns including issues pertaining to the sex trade were some of the ward’s key issues.

Harvey Smith refused to listen to anyone who suggested that at 77 he was too old for the job.

“People just talk about my age,” he said. “They don’t talk about what I’ve done. I have done a lot for this ward.”

Gilroy said Smith has represented the ward well over the years, but she said the desire for change was as much about changing Daniel McIntyre’s councillor as anything else.

The constituency assistant to the NDP rising star Kevin Chief said throughout the campaign she would be prepared to work for whoever was mayor. 

“I think I will work great with Mayor Bowman,” she said.

She said her first order of business will be learning the ropes.

She might get some assistance from her father, former councillor Ernie Gilroy, who worked closely with Cindy on this year’s campaign.