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The race in Nepean is among the most hotly contested in Ottawa, with Conservative Andy Wang and Liberal Chandra Arya running almost neck-and-neck amongst leaning and decided voters in a poll released about two weeks before the election.
The riding is new in 2015. It was carved out of the old riding of Nepean-Carleton. The riding’s previous MP, Conservative Pierre Poilievre, decided to run in the more rural Carleton riding, leaving his former aide Wang to run in the new riding which includes Barrhaven and Bells Corners and swaths of the old city of Nepean.
In campaigning leading up to the election, Wang has stuck closely to the Conservative party script. A ferocious door knocker who claimed to have visited more than 50,000 doors in the riding, Wang’s message focused on the need for lower taxes to keep the economy strong and create jobs. He also attacked the Liberal plan, calling it a recipe for higher taxes.
Arya also didn’t stray far from the wider Liberal platform of the need to run a deficit to stimulate the economy with investment in infrastructure and social programs, but also pitched a plan he believes could make Ottawa a hub for hardware and software developers to the defence industry. Arya, a former board member for Invest Ottawa, said the city was the perfect spot for such a venture, with it’s high tech background and proximity to the decision makers in Parliament.
Chandra Arya at his campaign office as results were starting to come in, but before the polls closed.
NDP candidate Devine wasn’t nominated until more than two weeks into the election campaign, but became the most vocal critic of Wang and the Conservatives. Devine positioned the NDP as the most progressive party and best able to advance a social agenda to improve health care and help youth and seniors while keeping the budget balanced.
Both Arya and Devine capitalized on the Conservatives lack of popularity among the public service. In interviews with the Citizen, both said restoring respect to public servants was among their top priorities should they be elected.
The riding had become a target of a Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada campaign to mobilize public servants to vote strategically against the Conservatives in key Ottawa ridings.
While Wang said he valued the public service, he seemed unwilling or unable to recognize their dissatisfaction.
Wang was booed during one all-candidates debate when answering a question about the public service and steadfastly maintained it must remain affordable to Canadians. During another televised debate, Wang said he found it alarming that public servants would want to defeat a government with a low tax plan to create new jobs, and cast doubt on Arya and Devine’s claims they were meeting public servants at the door who were dissatisfied with the Conservatives.
The Green Party of Canada was represented for the second time by Jean-Luc Cooke, the only candidate who also ran in the 2011 election. Cooke argued for tax breaks for small business and incentives for entrepreneurs to reinvest their capital gains tax-free in other small businesses. In an interview with the Citizen, he also favoured investment in infrastructure, such as improved high speed rail service and making funds available for Ottawa LRT expansion.
The riding also featured three independents and the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada. Retiree Harry Splett, 86, engineer Hubert Mamba and pro-life advocate Jesus Cosico ran their own platforms while Tony Seed ran for the Marxist-Leninist Party.
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The riding is new in 2015. It was carved out of the old riding of Nepean-Carleton. The riding’s previous MP, Conservative Pierre Poilievre, decided to run in the more rural Carleton riding, leaving his former aide Wang to run in the new riding which includes Barrhaven and Bells Corners and swaths of the old city of Nepean.
In campaigning leading up to the election, Wang has stuck closely to the Conservative party script. A ferocious door knocker who claimed to have visited more than 50,000 doors in the riding, Wang’s message focused on the need for lower taxes to keep the economy strong and create jobs. He also attacked the Liberal plan, calling it a recipe for higher taxes.
Arya also didn’t stray far from the wider Liberal platform of the need to run a deficit to stimulate the economy with investment in infrastructure and social programs, but also pitched a plan he believes could make Ottawa a hub for hardware and software developers to the defence industry. Arya, a former board member for Invest Ottawa, said the city was the perfect spot for such a venture, with it’s high tech background and proximity to the decision makers in Parliament.
Chandra Arya at his campaign office as results were starting to come in, but before the polls closed.
NDP candidate Devine wasn’t nominated until more than two weeks into the election campaign, but became the most vocal critic of Wang and the Conservatives. Devine positioned the NDP as the most progressive party and best able to advance a social agenda to improve health care and help youth and seniors while keeping the budget balanced.
Both Arya and Devine capitalized on the Conservatives lack of popularity among the public service. In interviews with the Citizen, both said restoring respect to public servants was among their top priorities should they be elected.
The riding had become a target of a Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada campaign to mobilize public servants to vote strategically against the Conservatives in key Ottawa ridings.
While Wang said he valued the public service, he seemed unwilling or unable to recognize their dissatisfaction.
Wang was booed during one all-candidates debate when answering a question about the public service and steadfastly maintained it must remain affordable to Canadians. During another televised debate, Wang said he found it alarming that public servants would want to defeat a government with a low tax plan to create new jobs, and cast doubt on Arya and Devine’s claims they were meeting public servants at the door who were dissatisfied with the Conservatives.
The Green Party of Canada was represented for the second time by Jean-Luc Cooke, the only candidate who also ran in the 2011 election. Cooke argued for tax breaks for small business and incentives for entrepreneurs to reinvest their capital gains tax-free in other small businesses. In an interview with the Citizen, he also favoured investment in infrastructure, such as improved high speed rail service and making funds available for Ottawa LRT expansion.
The riding also featured three independents and the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada. Retiree Harry Splett, 86, engineer Hubert Mamba and pro-life advocate Jesus Cosico ran their own platforms while Tony Seed ran for the Marxist-Leninist Party.
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