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TIMES The Voice of North Grenville
Vol. 3, No. 32
August 12, 2015
The election comes to North Grenville
Lorraine Rekmans, Green Party
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Margaret Andrade, NDP
by David Shanahan The candidates for the Riding of Leeds-GrenvilleThousand Islands and Rideau Lakes will be taking part in an All-Candidates meeting at the Municipal Centre in Kemptville on Thursday, September 17. The event is being sponsored by the North Grenville Times as part of our on-going mandate to allow the people of North Grenville a forum in which to speak to each other and their elected representatives without filters. Four candidates have been nominated by their parties to
run in the Riding: incumbent, Gord Brown represents the Conservative Party, challenged this time by Lorraine Rekmans for the Green Party, Mary Jean McFall for the Liberals, and Margaret Andrade for the NDP. The riding boundaries were changed in 2013, so it is not possible to make direct comparisons with previous election results. However, the Conservatives have a strong hold on the seat. Changing demographics means that the make-up of the riding has also changed over the past decade, and with the fluctuating state
Gord Brown,Conservative Party
Mary Jean McFall, Liberal
of the parties in the polls recently, this promises to be an exciting contest. Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes has a population of almost 100,000 people, and about 80,000 of them are on the electoral lists. The riding is geographically spread out between North Grenville in the north-east and Gananoque in the south-west, taking in 3,751 square kilometres. The candidates will be busy just getting around the riding over the coming weeks, and so the all-candidate meeting in Kemptville is expected to
be the only opportunity for residents here to see all four candidates together during the campaign. The format for the meeting has yet to be finalised, but it is hoped to have time for both national and local issues, with a great deal of participation from the audience. More details will be released as they are finalised. The meeting, which will be held in the Urbandale Arts Centre (Municipal Theatre) is, of course, free and open to everyone, and is expected to begin at 7 pm and conclude by 9.30.
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