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Year 31 • issue 19
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FRIDAY • September 17 • 2021
Nepean candidates head into final days of election campaign By Charlie Senack The federal election is less than a week away and candidates are busy making a final campaign push. Election signs from all parties have added colour to Barrhaven streets, and reminders to vote have been hung on doors. The riding of Nepean has been Liberal since being formed in 2015, with Incumbent Liberal MP Chandra Arya running in his third election. The Conservatives are hoping to win over the riding with Matt Triemstra as their candidate, and Sean Devine is running for the New Democrats in his second election. Carleton resident Gordon Kubanek is running for the Greens in Nepean. During the last federal election in 2019, the Liberals won Nepean with over 45 per cent of the vote. Arya won with 8,613 ballots ahead of
then-Conservative candidate Brian St. Louis. Because of the pandemic, no all candidates debates have been held in Nepean during this election cycle. The Barrhaven Independent asked all candidates in Nepean to answer the same questions. Gordon Kubanek from the Green Party was the only candidate who didn’t respond to our request for comment.
Chandra Arya
The federal election has been called in the midst of a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, all parties besides the Liberals have called it unnecessary. Arya has said in the past he feels the snap election was a good move, giving Canadians a chance to vote in the government they feel will do the best job rebuilding the country following COVID-19. But because of restric-
tions, this has been a campaign unlike any other. “I am knocking on doors everyday, while respecting physical distancing and wearing a mask, and I must say I am struck by the degree to which Nepean residents are engaged on the important issues being discussed during this election,” said Arya. “Compared to my previous campaigns in 2015 and 2019, I would say people have been closely following the key policy issues, and are looking for strong leadership in managing the economy and ending the pandemic.” Arya says while knocking on doors, the issues he’s hearing most are regarding the pandemic. “The residents of Nepean want the federal government to do everything possible to end the pandemic, including by increasing our vaccination rates even further, so we
Voters in Barrhaven will go to the polls on Mon., Sept. 20. Liberal incumbent Chandra Arya is looking for a third term as the local MP while Conservative candidate Matt Triemstra is trying to be the riding’s first Conservative MP since Pierre Poilievre. Charlie Senack photo
can recover and build back better,” he said. “Voters also want strong leadership on making housing more afford-
able and combating climate change, as we are already seeing the negative impacts of extreme weather in our
community and across the country.”
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