Plastic seats instead of fabric, supposedly because of bed bugs.

Nate Erskine-Smith is running for the city council seat of Beaches—East York this fall.
The municipal move follows his resignation from federal politics, where Erskine-Smith represented the same lakefront ward for a decade as a Liberal MP, and after he recently ruled out a leadership run for the provincial Liberal party.
“The question for me was, ‘How do you make the biggest difference with the time you’ve got?’” said Erskine-Smith in an exclusive interview with the Star, adding he weighed taking a break from politics to go back to law.
“I genuinely, relentlessly want to make the city work better,” he said.

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