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The incumbent councillor in Kanata South, Allan Hubley, says he’s happy on city council and that’s where he’ll stay if re-elected.
Hubley said Monday he will not seek the federal Conservative nomination in Kanata to replace MP Gordon O’Connor in the federal election due in 2015. O’Connor’s office announced in May that the 75-year-old will step down after the current term.
Hubley had previously been cagey about the possibility he might enter federal politics.
Monday, he was definitive: “I’ve talked to Gordon and I understand he isn’t running again, (but) I find the municipal level is where you’re the closest to the people you serve and I like it and that’s where I hope to stay.”
The idea that Hubley might not serve the new four-year term he’s seeking in Kanata South is one of the factors that drew in challenger David Abuwa just before nominations closed in September. It wouldn’t be fair to taxpayers to have to pay for a byelection because Hubley headed off to a job he liked better, Abuwa says.
O’Connor, 75 and a retired general, has represented the riding that includes Kanata and West Carleton since 2004, through several revisions of its boundaries and name. It’s now Carleton-Mississippi Mills; in the next election, it will become Kanata-Carleton.
Two declared candidates for the Tory nomination there are Ade Olumide, founder of the Ottawa Taxpayers Advocacy Group, and Ted Hurley, chair of the Ottawa Catholic School Board. Former police chief and now senator Vern White considered seeking the nomination but decided against it.
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Hubley said Monday he will not seek the federal Conservative nomination in Kanata to replace MP Gordon O’Connor in the federal election due in 2015. O’Connor’s office announced in May that the 75-year-old will step down after the current term.
Hubley had previously been cagey about the possibility he might enter federal politics.
Monday, he was definitive: “I’ve talked to Gordon and I understand he isn’t running again, (but) I find the municipal level is where you’re the closest to the people you serve and I like it and that’s where I hope to stay.”
The idea that Hubley might not serve the new four-year term he’s seeking in Kanata South is one of the factors that drew in challenger David Abuwa just before nominations closed in September. It wouldn’t be fair to taxpayers to have to pay for a byelection because Hubley headed off to a job he liked better, Abuwa says.
O’Connor, 75 and a retired general, has represented the riding that includes Kanata and West Carleton since 2004, through several revisions of its boundaries and name. It’s now Carleton-Mississippi Mills; in the next election, it will become Kanata-Carleton.
Two declared candidates for the Tory nomination there are Ade Olumide, founder of the Ottawa Taxpayers Advocacy Group, and Ted Hurley, chair of the Ottawa Catholic School Board. Former police chief and now senator Vern White considered seeking the nomination but decided against it.
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