Lil’ MPP Vanquishes His Enemies in Nomination Battle

The youngest MPP in Ontario history (and VICE's favourite little guy in Canadian politics,) Sam Oosterhoff, has won his nomination battle.

The 19-year-old social conservative first won a provincial by-election in November of last year—to the shock (and glee) of many pundits. Now, the one man youth wing of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives will be going into the June 2018 election to take on whatever loser the Liberals throw his way.

To get to where he is, Oosterhoff has had to take on some mighty challengers. The lil' guy had to start his quest by winning his riding's nomination. The riding, Niagara-West Glanbrook, was formerly held by Tim Hudak—the former leader of the party—and to win it Oosterhoff went head to head with PC party president Rick Dykstra and regional councillor Tony Quirk.

T'was a mighty task, but, in the end, Oosterhoff, like a little babe David, emerged victorious over the Goliaths on the party executive after rallying the evangelical vote in the riding. After vanquishing those mighty foes, our politically minded toddler easily won his riding in a by-election.

Then, because the work of a warrior is never over, Oosterhoff was challenged for the nomination for his riding in the upcoming election, again by Quirk. While fundraising for this nomination, Oosterhoff found himself in the lamest fundraising scandal ever when he briefly used a Go-Fund-Me page to raise funds (which you're totally allowed to do if you follow the rules).

This time, the nomination battle wasn't even close, and the babe smashed Quirk with 903 votes to 313—he didn't decapitate Quirk and march around with triumphantly his head like the real David, but it was still an impressive victory. With that tally now in the books it makes three hard-fought wins in five months for our lil' guy. Say what you want about the Oosterhoff, but he is hell of a fighter.

When first elected, the Oosterhoff-inator got dragged a little for living with his parents, being home schooled, being such a staunch social conservative that he was endorsed by anti-abortion activists, and has been grilled on what seemed to be a homophobic stances. Since he started, the kid opposed a law that would give more rights to same-sex parents, called himself "100% pro-life," and missed his first day of work to plan a killer party for himself.  

But we must remember that the lil' baby MPP is only 19. Remember how dumb you were when you were 19? (I assume you were pretty fucking dumb.)

Let's just hope that, much like good wine, the MPP will get better with age.

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