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Autism joins the campaign trail 		   
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Autism joins the campaign trail
Parents vow to make politicians improve services for children

By ANTONELLA ARTUSO, QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF


Premier Bob Rae's re-election bid was dogged by social-contract-hating protesters.

Giant flip-flops followed Liberal Lyn McLeod around during the 1995 campaign to spotlight same-sex rights.

Mike Harris was swarmed by Kraft Dinner-throwing poverty protesters in 1999.

Now, Premier Dalton McGuinty can expect to find his election steps haunted by a group of parents who intend to make autism front and centre in the coming provincial campaign, which gets officially underway on Sept. 10.

Richmond Hill's Taline Sagharian, the mother of a 10-year-old son, told Sun Media this week that this new group is determined to play a "very strong" advocacy role in the election, bringing the issue directly to the politicians on the hustings.
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07/16/2007by: shannonj
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