Federal NDP candidates for 2019 federal election

Ravi Joshi has dropped out of the nomination in Toronto-Danforth. Documenterian and educator Min Sook Lee is also running. 

Mae J. Nam, a labour lawyer, is running for the federal NDP nomination in Beaches-East York. The NDP represents the riding provincially and held it federally from 2011 to 2015.

https://twitter.com/MaeJNam

Hopefully Emma will win the nomination.

Meet the climate justice activist hoping to run for the NDP in Nova Scotia

http://www.rabble.ca/news/2019/03/meet-climate-justice-activist-hoping-run-ndp-nova-scotia#at_pco=smlrebv-1.0&at_si=5cc60cb841a19805&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=5

Badriya wrote:

Wow!  The NDP is attracting some amazing candidates.  This is so encouraging.

I think the NDP always did. This thread here on babble really helps, and still there’s more good potential candidates from NDP membership. Such as Fred Hahn and Tania Liu whom I mentioned up thread. Sid Ryan has also been a candidate a number of times (one example of a lengthy list)

Tough part is getting elected. 

https://mobile.twitter.com/Tom_Parkin_/status/1124661208475480064

And I trust they've all been pre-screened to ensure there's no 'Palestinian fifth columnist' tendencies too. Wouldn't want to upset the zios with some loose talk of 'BDS' or 'Israeli Apartheid' would we?

Two strong candidates are fighting for the nomination in Thunder Bay-Rainy River held by John Rafferty from 2008 to 2015: labour activist Yuk Sem Won and union president for the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service Jason Storkson.

Storkson said he's a great communicator, team builder, and negotiator, due to his experiences as local president of his union, sitting on the bargaining team, and achieving equity and fairness for First Nations policing. 

Won, who has worked as an educator and labour representative, said her primary focus is ensuring that the people and families of Thunder Bay-Rainy River have a strong and active representative who is present in the community.

“I have always found that my strength was having conversations and advocating for the people I represented, finding both the common ground while bringing a strong voice for the things I believed in,” she said. “Taking on a role in politics was the next logical step.”

Storkson meanwhile, said some of his focus, if elected, would be geared towards investing into stronger education systems to help create an economically prosperous future for the province. “I believe every dollar spent on a person's training and education will return a hundredfold," said Storkson. ”The climate of cutbacks in education is brutal. With educated people come new ideas and innovation. From an economic perspective it makes sense for the country to pay for education right through post secondary in fields where there is a need for skilled workers,” he added. 

This includes trades schools, because of the “desperate need” for tradespeople and skilled workers in today's workforce, Storkson said. “Paying for their education and creating skilled employees who will contribute to the system and not take from it, makes sense to me,” he remarked.

Won is a fellow believer in investing money into people to help create and sustain jobs. She also noted that much of the NDP's core values match those held by citizens of Northwestern Ontario.   “Our policies support the growth and prosperity of our resources and people,” Won remarked. "They value each of us as members of a community and strive to ensure a prosperous future for all. We must bring together our economic focus with our goal to build a clean and sustainable Canada,” she added.

Won said the government needs to focus on issues that effect everyone, such as education, healthcare, poverty, caring for seniors, veterans, and protecting Human Rights. “We need to have a government that does not attempt to fix issues by stepping on and disregarding its people,” she remarked. “To prosper, our people need to have the opportunity become educated, healthy, and productive workers that can sustain and grow our economy.” Protecting Ontario's water and land, along with addressing climate change head-on to become a leader in the much needed green economy, are areas of importance for Won. 

“We all want to have a country that will not only survive, but thrive for generations to come,” Won noted. “We are looking to have a Canada where universal healthcare is partnered with universal pharmacare: because you shouldn't have to decide between medicine or rent,” she added.

Storkson is also a major proponent of the environment and if elected he said he'd like to see all of the political parties come together to create a green plan for Canada that is free from elections cycles and changing governments. “A plan, everyone can get behind with 5 year benchmarks for industry to cut emissions through research and development in cleaning their outputs,” he said. “I don't think the carbon tax is a good idea . . . incentives versus taxing is my philosophy on creating change.” The recently eliminated solar cell program for private homes and energy rebates on high efficiency appliances like furnaces and hot water tanks are programs Storkson would like to see revitalized. ...

If elected Storkson said much of his efforts would also be geared towards reconciliation with indigenous communities.

“Our First Nations need to become an integral part of our country,” he said.  “Systemic racism perpetrated in the past by our governments have created a welfare state for them. We need to scrap the Indian Act, rename and rewrite it from scratch together with the government and First Nations,” Storkson added. He said the current system can be fixed it just needs the political will to do it.

http://www.fftimes.com/news/local/news/two-candidates-seeking-ndp-nomina...

NDPP wrote:

And I trust they've all been pre-screened to ensure there's no 'Palestinian fifth columnist' tendencies too. Wouldn't want to upset the zios with some loose talk of 'BDS' or 'Israeli Apartheid' would we?

Jessa McLean candidate in the recent York-Simcoe by-election (and a wonderful young activist in the 15 and Fairness Campaign) speaks of Israeli apartheid and the BDS campaign.    She was also denounced by Freeland in the HOC over her principled opposition to the US backed coup attempt in Venezuela.  

My understanding is that she is running again this fall.   It's a tough constituency where the Tories could nominate a dead rat and it would get elected.

I think a dead rat would make a very good Tory MP. You could also have him or her mummified, so as to serve many terms.

Garrison should not be in this group, in my view. 

Garrison is also the leading LGBT+ activist in parliament and has been active in international human rights promotion and environmentalism for decades. If he is not re-elected, it will be a loss for parliament and for Canada, especially in removing the LGBT+ activist voice that is needed. 

I can't imagine the NDP insisting on BDS as a requirement for anything. But at least they voted all against the Conservative-Liebral motion to condemn it. 

Still glad to see the NDP nominating more anti-racist, environmentalist candidates than it used to do. 

He sure does, and the Greens must be favourites to win the seat. Again, losing Garrison would be a sad outcome. 

I am curious Debater, do you care about issues and people, or only about polls? 

Debater wrote:

Of course I care about issues -- my main concern right now, like many Canadians, is the environment.

That's why I think I will vote Green this year to send a message to the Liberals & the NDP about how important it is.

Your previous posts fooled me on both counts. You continually push polls and the Liberals and do not provide very little in the way of discussing issues as issues, as opposed to who is winning on a particular issue, including the environment. There is a famous saying: when people show who they are (as opposed to what they say) believe them. Until I see a change in what you post on, I find it hard to believe otherwise. 

Jerry, you can believe what you like.  I don't have to justify myself to you.  This sort of petty thing is why many people don't post on this board anymore, and why mainstream parties like the NDP are losing support to the Greens.

And it's weird that you're tracking & analyzing my posting history.  The reason I posted the new data showing the drop in support for Ford was to back up the effect of the service cuts that you had posted about earlier on that Ontario thread.

Debater wrote 

This sort of petty thing is why many people don't post on this board anymore, and why mainstream parties like the NDP are losing support to the Greens.

lol! You gotta b freekin joking me?

First off, the greens are drawing support from ALL parties. Not just the NDP. 

But for some odd reason, only the NDP are in trouble?

The success of the provincial NDP in winning three ridings on election night may have helped persuade Jack Harris to run in St. John's East, as his name only appeared on the wiki candidates list a couple of weeks after the provincial election. 

Jack Harris has a chance to win because of his star caliber, but because the Federal NDP is polling so low in Atlantic Canada, and is now behind the Greens, there are no guarantees for him.

Leonore Zann's decision to run for the Liberals is interesting, but because Cumberland-Colchester is usually a Conservative stronghold, there's a strong chance Scott Armstrong will win it back now that Bill Casey is retiring.

jerrym wrote:

ETA: Good news for the NDP in Newfoundland: Jack Harrris is running for the nomination in St. John's East where he lost by only 2.4% in the Liberal sweep of the Atlantic region. The nomination meeting is on June 18th.  

He will be running against Liberal MP Nick Whalen who in October 2016 "responded to comments over Twitter by Earle McCurdy about the protests opposing the Lower Churchill Project over concerns of methylmercury being spilled into Lake Melville. Whalen responded by tweeting that the methylmercury levels should be monitored and people should compensate when levels are high by eating less fish. Whalen later issued an apology for that comment." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Whalen)

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Jack Harris has a chance to win because of his star caliber, but because the Federal NDP is polling so low in Atlantic Canada, and is now behind the Greens, there are no guarantees for him.

Interesting that once again Debater, as is the tendency of Liberals here, you comment only on the candidate but not on an issue, in this case Liberal MP's Nick Whalen's comment that people should compensate by eating less fish when toxic levels of methylmercury are high because it is being spilled in Lake Melville due to the Lower Churchill Project. If you are switched to the Greens as you now say, one might expect more outrage at such an approach that only resulted in an apology when the protests became too numerous.

My criticism is consistent. It always seems that your posts boost the Liberals even when you say that you are supporting the Greens. They are consistently about how well the Liberals appear to be doing according to you without discussing the issues. I rarely criticize most others because they at least discuss issues  some of the time, even if I don't agree withthem.  I also avoid flare fights which I believe are pointless. Once again you avoided the issue of Nick Whalen's comment saying that the solution to methylmercury poisoning is for the natives to eat less fish and what it suggests about his attitude towards First Nations and the environment. To avoid a flare fight I will leave my comments at that. 

jerrym wrote:

My criticism is consistent. It always seems that your posts boost the Liberals even when you say that you are supporting the Greens. They are consistently about how well the Liberals appear to be doing according to you without discussing the issues. I rarely criticize most others because they at least discuss issues  some of the time, even if I don't agree withthem.  I also avoid flare fights which I believe are pointless. Once again you avoided the issue of Nick Whalen's comment saying that the solution to methylmercury poisoning is for the natives to eat less fish and what it suggests about his attitude towards First Nations and the environment. To avoid a flare fight I will leave my comments at that. 

He is focused on evaluating the ridings from the perspective of likely winners rather than supporting one or the other.  Commenting on Whalen's tweet is pointless unless it has had an impact on his electability.  It's not like someone is going to argue in defence so the only thing to say is "how awful". 

Are you saying it has impacted Nick Whalen's popularity or lack thereof?

My perception of Debater is that his interest is in tracking the popularity of the various parties. The Liberals have been the most popular. Saying you think a particular person will win a riding doesn't mean you want them to. 

I agree with what he is saying about babble. There is so much focus on who is posting rather than on what they are saying and on projecting identities on them. Whether or not Debater is a Liberal is meaningless. 

The point of these sorts of accusations is to undermine the person being attacked, and it is an attack. The implication is that the person is biased and just pretending not to support X. Even if that were true it doesn't matter. Either the arguments are sound or they are not. 

Yeah, the NDP is very, very far behind on candidate selection this year.  Large swaths of the country are missing NDP candidates.

I've noticed there are several places where the Liberals & Conservatives are also missing candidates across the country, although the NDP seems to be having the most trouble.

Part of it may also be the large size of the country -- it's challenging for even big parties to find candidates for all the ridings.

It seems that Frank Magazine dug up a tweet she wrote about Israel/Palestine last year.

She is expected to be replaced by Emma Norton, who was the runner up for the NDP nomination.

We have Muslim congresswomen in the United States openly criticizing Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, and yet the NDP still bounces prospective candidates for that? The party is more tone-deaf to what is happening in the real world than I thought.

Stockholm is correct.  I went and looked at the tweet that Frank Magazine dug up and sent to the NDP.

This time it wasn't a case of a candidate being dismissed just for weighing into the Israel/Palestine debate and criticizing the usual Israeli policies on the Gaza Strip, resettlement, etc.  Rana Zaman made a tweet that went over the line and compared the Israelis to the Nazis and said they were aiming to beat the Nazi total of 6 million dead and referred to Auschwitz: