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When she was campaigning, Françoise Boivin gleefully repeated a prediction by Citizen columnist David Reevely — that she could lose Gatineau only if Tom Mulcair bit a baby.
That remains to be seen, of course. The Liberals pushed hard here, bringing in leader Justin Trudeau to sell doughnuts at Tim Horton’s to boost the political fortunes of Liberal candidate Steve MacKinnon. The party faces some handicaps, including the loss of the northwest corner of the riding — strong Liberal country — to the adjacent riding of Pontiac.
But going into the final stretch of the campaign, Boivin did not lack for confidence. She said voters she met “are talking a lot about how they are happy with the presence I have in the community, and the services I gave them,” she said in an interview.
“They like the leadership I have. They saw me with the justice critic portfolio so they had a lot of opportunity to see me and I think … for them it’s kind of a novelty because they were not used to having a representative that was so visible, that was so there.”
At the door, Boivin said, people “are talking a lot about the fact that they don’t like the tone of the past 10 years in Canada. So they really want a new style of governance.”
The issues were “the usual that come up in any campaign”: jobs for public servants, better health care, major infrastructure, even potholes on the street.
“I take nothing for granted. The fact that I had the biggest margin (in Quebec) in 2011 — I can’t take that for granted. But it’s still a fact.”
“But at the same time, you know it can change really easily.”
Liberal MacKinnon, who came third in 2011, promised to support public service jobs, spend heavily on infrastructure, and support the construction of a bridge to Ottawa.
Conservative Luc Angers was more visible than many capital-area Conservatives, taking part in interviews and candidates’ debates, but he kept facing criticism about his party’s public service job cuts.
The Bloc ran Philippe Boily to replace two-time MP Richard Nadeau, who retired from politics. He hammered at the theme that Gatineau lives in Ottawa’s shadow and needs to get a fairer share of federal spending on jobs and transportation.
Green candidate Guy Dostaler and independent Guy Bellavance were less visible in the campaign.
Gatineau is largely French-speaking: 89,965 listed French as their first language in the 2011 census, with 6,510 speaking English, 2,180 Arabic and 1,175 Spanish. It’s heavily Catholic (84,075).
About a quarter of the workers in the riding — 15,190 out of just under 60,000 — worked for one of the three levels of government at the time of the 2011 census. Most are federal workers, making public service cuts an important issue.
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That remains to be seen, of course. The Liberals pushed hard here, bringing in leader Justin Trudeau to sell doughnuts at Tim Horton’s to boost the political fortunes of Liberal candidate Steve MacKinnon. The party faces some handicaps, including the loss of the northwest corner of the riding — strong Liberal country — to the adjacent riding of Pontiac.
But going into the final stretch of the campaign, Boivin did not lack for confidence. She said voters she met “are talking a lot about how they are happy with the presence I have in the community, and the services I gave them,” she said in an interview.
“They like the leadership I have. They saw me with the justice critic portfolio so they had a lot of opportunity to see me and I think … for them it’s kind of a novelty because they were not used to having a representative that was so visible, that was so there.”
At the door, Boivin said, people “are talking a lot about the fact that they don’t like the tone of the past 10 years in Canada. So they really want a new style of governance.”
The issues were “the usual that come up in any campaign”: jobs for public servants, better health care, major infrastructure, even potholes on the street.
“I take nothing for granted. The fact that I had the biggest margin (in Quebec) in 2011 — I can’t take that for granted. But it’s still a fact.”
“But at the same time, you know it can change really easily.”
Liberal MacKinnon, who came third in 2011, promised to support public service jobs, spend heavily on infrastructure, and support the construction of a bridge to Ottawa.
Conservative Luc Angers was more visible than many capital-area Conservatives, taking part in interviews and candidates’ debates, but he kept facing criticism about his party’s public service job cuts.
The Bloc ran Philippe Boily to replace two-time MP Richard Nadeau, who retired from politics. He hammered at the theme that Gatineau lives in Ottawa’s shadow and needs to get a fairer share of federal spending on jobs and transportation.
Green candidate Guy Dostaler and independent Guy Bellavance were less visible in the campaign.
Gatineau is largely French-speaking: 89,965 listed French as their first language in the 2011 census, with 6,510 speaking English, 2,180 Arabic and 1,175 Spanish. It’s heavily Catholic (84,075).
About a quarter of the workers in the riding — 15,190 out of just under 60,000 — worked for one of the three levels of government at the time of the 2011 census. Most are federal workers, making public service cuts an important issue.
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