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The Conservative stronghold of Kanata-Carleton is under siege by Liberal Karen McCrimmon, a retired Royal Canadian Air Force commander whose strong campaign has made Monday’s result difficult to predict.
Throughout the campaign, McCrimmon steadily gained in the polls until, with about 10 days to go before the election, she pulled up neck-and-neck with Conservative Walter Pamic, a small business owner from Kanata. One Environics poll even placed her comfortably in the lead last week.
McCrimmon was an accomplished performer in local all-candidates meetings and benefited from the rising Liberal tide generated by Justin Trudeau’s national campaign.
In the late stages of the Kanata-Carleton race, Pamic was also damaged by a video that surfaced, which showed him removing a lawn sign that urged residents to vote strategically in the riding. The signs are illegal under the Canada Elections Act, but city staff are supposed to remove them, not candidates.
Pamic admitted taking signs down on Teron and Beaverbrook roads, and later apologized for his actions, saying he should have contacted the bylaw department rather than take matters into his own hands.
During the campaign, Pamic billed himself as a common-sense conservative determined to lower taxes, get tough on crime and ensure the military is well-funded. McCrimmon positioned herself as the candidate of change and polls suggest she successfully drew support away from NDP candidate John Hansen, a high-tech executive, and the Green Party’s Andrew West, a lawyer.
When they met in public forums, McCrimmon and Pamic clashed over a host of issues: the Conservative government’s treatment of civil servants; the Liberals’ proposed infrastructure program; and electoral reform.
In one debate, McCrimmon said the government’s relationship with its employees has become dangerously frayed under the Conservatives. Pamic attacked the Liberals as a “tax and spend” party that the country can’t afford in a time of economic uncertainty.
Both McCrimmon and Pamic said the primary issue in this election was the economy, but they disagreed about how best to protect and stimulate it. McCrimmon trumpeted the jobs that will result from the Liberal plan to almost double federal spending on infrastructure to $125 billion, while Pamic argued that the best way to bolster the economy is to maintain the Conservative government’s policy of lower taxes and balanced budgets.
At the door, local candidates found that the economy was the issue that most voters wanted to discuss. Transit was also an issue as many residents in Kanata-Carleton told the candidates that they want the city’s light-rapid transit line to extend beyond the Bayshore Shopping Centre, into Kanata.
Kanata-Carleton is a new riding created for the 2015 federal election: It consists of large swaths of the former riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills, a Tory fortress, and some parts of Nepean-Carleton.
There was no incumbent in the race since Conservative Gordon O’Connor retired from politics. The former brigadier-general dominated elections in Carleton-Mississippi Mills for the past decade, winning four straight.
McCrimmon lost to her fellow soldier, O’Connor, in the 2011 federal election by more than 20,000 votes. But McCrimmon decided to contest another election since she’s not someone easily deterred by a challenge. As a teenager, she joined cadets on a dare.
McCrimmon grew up around planes as her father, a metallurgist technician, worked at A.V. Roe Canada where he helped build the CF-105 Arrow, an advanced interceptor aircraft that was ultimately scrapped by John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservative government. McCrimmon studied Russian at the University of Windsor with an eye to a career in the diplomatic corps. When she graduated, the foreign service wasn’t hiring, so she turned to the military, which in 1979 had opened its colleges to women.
She enlisted in the air force despite her mother’s remonstrations, and during her 26-year military career, McCrimmon was the first woman in Canada to qualify as an air navigator and the first to command an air force squadron. She served in Afghanistan, the Balkans and the first Gulf War.
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Throughout the campaign, McCrimmon steadily gained in the polls until, with about 10 days to go before the election, she pulled up neck-and-neck with Conservative Walter Pamic, a small business owner from Kanata. One Environics poll even placed her comfortably in the lead last week.
McCrimmon was an accomplished performer in local all-candidates meetings and benefited from the rising Liberal tide generated by Justin Trudeau’s national campaign.
In the late stages of the Kanata-Carleton race, Pamic was also damaged by a video that surfaced, which showed him removing a lawn sign that urged residents to vote strategically in the riding. The signs are illegal under the Canada Elections Act, but city staff are supposed to remove them, not candidates.
Pamic admitted taking signs down on Teron and Beaverbrook roads, and later apologized for his actions, saying he should have contacted the bylaw department rather than take matters into his own hands.
During the campaign, Pamic billed himself as a common-sense conservative determined to lower taxes, get tough on crime and ensure the military is well-funded. McCrimmon positioned herself as the candidate of change and polls suggest she successfully drew support away from NDP candidate John Hansen, a high-tech executive, and the Green Party’s Andrew West, a lawyer.
When they met in public forums, McCrimmon and Pamic clashed over a host of issues: the Conservative government’s treatment of civil servants; the Liberals’ proposed infrastructure program; and electoral reform.
In one debate, McCrimmon said the government’s relationship with its employees has become dangerously frayed under the Conservatives. Pamic attacked the Liberals as a “tax and spend” party that the country can’t afford in a time of economic uncertainty.
Both McCrimmon and Pamic said the primary issue in this election was the economy, but they disagreed about how best to protect and stimulate it. McCrimmon trumpeted the jobs that will result from the Liberal plan to almost double federal spending on infrastructure to $125 billion, while Pamic argued that the best way to bolster the economy is to maintain the Conservative government’s policy of lower taxes and balanced budgets.
At the door, local candidates found that the economy was the issue that most voters wanted to discuss. Transit was also an issue as many residents in Kanata-Carleton told the candidates that they want the city’s light-rapid transit line to extend beyond the Bayshore Shopping Centre, into Kanata.
Kanata-Carleton is a new riding created for the 2015 federal election: It consists of large swaths of the former riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills, a Tory fortress, and some parts of Nepean-Carleton.
There was no incumbent in the race since Conservative Gordon O’Connor retired from politics. The former brigadier-general dominated elections in Carleton-Mississippi Mills for the past decade, winning four straight.
McCrimmon lost to her fellow soldier, O’Connor, in the 2011 federal election by more than 20,000 votes. But McCrimmon decided to contest another election since she’s not someone easily deterred by a challenge. As a teenager, she joined cadets on a dare.
McCrimmon grew up around planes as her father, a metallurgist technician, worked at A.V. Roe Canada where he helped build the CF-105 Arrow, an advanced interceptor aircraft that was ultimately scrapped by John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservative government. McCrimmon studied Russian at the University of Windsor with an eye to a career in the diplomatic corps. When she graduated, the foreign service wasn’t hiring, so she turned to the military, which in 1979 had opened its colleges to women.
She enlisted in the air force despite her mother’s remonstrations, and during her 26-year military career, McCrimmon was the first woman in Canada to qualify as an air navigator and the first to command an air force squadron. She served in Afghanistan, the Balkans and the first Gulf War.
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