Talk:Steve Gilchrist

message: The article is in needs to have more sources listed. Reginald Perrin 01:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup needed 

message: While it may bother the Liberal attempting to post spurious and inaccurate data that Gilchrist left politics for an honourable reason, that just happens to be the case. As someone who served on the riding association executive with him, I can tell you that the dates of the nomination and the withdrawal are wrong and, in fact, Gilchrist supplied notice of his intentions back in January - prior to the extraneous issue to which the poster alludes. Furthermore, I now have a copy of the Hill Times article and the poster is lying when he/she states the reason for his withdrawal. It goes into great detail to state the reason was the pursuit of the renewable energy project in Ghana and, while it suggests "others" have "speculated" that there may have been another factor contributing to his withdrawal, that speculation doesn't equal fact. They pose the question to Gilchrist, in the article, and he expressly denies that anything other than the pressure to concentrate on the energy project, plus the fact that the Liberals won't develop a spine prior to the fixed election date of October 2009, had any impact on his decision and, to reiterate, his indication that he was leaving pre-dated the matter involving his father. So get out of the gutter and quit indulging in mud-slinging - it isn't factual and, therefore, unworthy of being in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.245.185.11 (talk • contribs) 
Upon reading a cached version of the Hill Times article here I have to agree with the anon. I've removed the following passage from the wikipedia article:
:April 14, 2008, The Hill Times reported that the reason for Gilchist stepping down was his father, Gordon Gilchrist's racist, anti-immigrant rant in a local newspaper in February, 2008.
What the Hill Times article actually says is:
:Steve Gilchrist, Conservative Party candidate in the Ontario riding of Ajax-Pickering stepped down two weeks ago to pursue a job opportunity as an environmental consultant.
Later on the article says:
:some Liberals who spoke to The Hill Times on condition of anonymity speculate that Mr. Gilchrist's decision to step down as a Tory candidate could be related to a controversy that his father, Gordon Gilchrist, a former two-term MP, is involved in in the Port Hope, Ont., area where he's currently a school board trustee.
So it's quite misleading to say that the Hill Times reported that Gordon Gilchrist's letter is the reason Steve Gilchrist stepped down since the article does not say that at all. Rather, it says that he stepped down to pursue a job opportunity and later says that some Liberals "speaking on condition of anonymity" are suggesting a link between the two events. Frankly, I don't think speculation from an anonymous source in a rival party suggesting that the two events "could be" related passes muster for inclusion in the article given our rules regarding biographies of living persons. If a notable Liberal went on the record saying he or she knew for a fact that the two events were related, that would be another story, but anonymous people saying they "could" be related events? I don't think so. Reggie Perrin (talk) 23:05, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Resignation as candidate