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Provincewide issues like energy, climate change and health care wait times, rather than local issue, dominated the all-candidates’ debate Wednesday night in the newly created Carleton riding.
The debate at the Greely Community Centre was the third of four that the six-member slate of candidates will take part in. The one-candidate, one-question format did not allow candidates to rebut each other for the most part, leaving them instead to sell their parties’ visions of what are the most important issues facing rural communities.
Theresa Qadri said a Liberal government would make seniors’ health care a priority.
“I want to ensure that their parking is taken care of, that their help at home is there, that they don’t lose their job and lose their house because someone’s sick in their family,” she said, “My job is to ensure that you are looked after, that we can help you at the time when you need the health.”
For the Progressive Conservatives’ Goldie Ghamari, the real issue is the economy.
“We need to make sure that Ontario is open for business,” she said. “Government is not here to create jobs. It’s you, the people, who should be creating jobs.”
Voters also heard from Jean-Serge Brisson from the Libertarian Party, Gordon Kubaney of the Green Party, Jay Tysick of the Ontario Party, and Courtney Potter of the NDP.
Ghamari got the biggest cheer of the night with her response to a question about whether she believes in man-made climate change: “I’ve spoken with people on both sides. The reality is that if there is climate change, our use of fossil fuels and carbon emissions don’t seem to affect it. I believe climate change — I don’t believe climate change is man-made, and I don’t believe the people of Carleton are responsible.”
Carleton is one of the 17 new ridings being contested for the first time in this election, so the race is without an incumbent. In theory, however, this riding is the PCs’ to lose: the riding is fairly rural and tends to elect Conservative candidates.
But traditional Tory turf or not, the debate was largely a contest between front-runners Ghamari and Qadri. Qadri, who is married to Ottawa Coun. Shad Qadri, has some name recognition in the ward.
On-the-ground campaigning has been something of a challenge, she said during an intermission, because of a disconnect between the larger narrative in the election — that Ontario’s debt is out of control and that its economy is struggling — and the actual situation on the ground. She pointed out that Ontario’s growth has recently been the largest in the G7.
“The hardest thing for voters in this election,” she said, “is to figure out what the true facts are.”
Ghamari has already seen some controversy in this long election cycle. She won the nomination over Tysick, who complained in a recent Globe and Mail article that the “the fix was in,” from PC party brass. That was back in 2016.
Now, rumblings in Carleton have turned into a provincewide roar that has called into question what was previously thought to be a sure thing for the Tories. Which is not to totally count out an insurgent NDP.
First-time candidate Potter — a 22-year-old student, was one of the last candidates fielded by the NDP — and her campaign manager, Maureen Schiller, admitted that it’s a tough slog in conservative territory. But, she says, “we’re getting a lot of openness” to the NDP’s platform.
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The debate at the Greely Community Centre was the third of four that the six-member slate of candidates will take part in. The one-candidate, one-question format did not allow candidates to rebut each other for the most part, leaving them instead to sell their parties’ visions of what are the most important issues facing rural communities.
Theresa Qadri said a Liberal government would make seniors’ health care a priority.
“I want to ensure that their parking is taken care of, that their help at home is there, that they don’t lose their job and lose their house because someone’s sick in their family,” she said, “My job is to ensure that you are looked after, that we can help you at the time when you need the health.”
For the Progressive Conservatives’ Goldie Ghamari, the real issue is the economy.
“We need to make sure that Ontario is open for business,” she said. “Government is not here to create jobs. It’s you, the people, who should be creating jobs.”
Voters also heard from Jean-Serge Brisson from the Libertarian Party, Gordon Kubaney of the Green Party, Jay Tysick of the Ontario Party, and Courtney Potter of the NDP.
Ghamari got the biggest cheer of the night with her response to a question about whether she believes in man-made climate change: “I’ve spoken with people on both sides. The reality is that if there is climate change, our use of fossil fuels and carbon emissions don’t seem to affect it. I believe climate change — I don’t believe climate change is man-made, and I don’t believe the people of Carleton are responsible.”
Carleton is one of the 17 new ridings being contested for the first time in this election, so the race is without an incumbent. In theory, however, this riding is the PCs’ to lose: the riding is fairly rural and tends to elect Conservative candidates.
But traditional Tory turf or not, the debate was largely a contest between front-runners Ghamari and Qadri. Qadri, who is married to Ottawa Coun. Shad Qadri, has some name recognition in the ward.
On-the-ground campaigning has been something of a challenge, she said during an intermission, because of a disconnect between the larger narrative in the election — that Ontario’s debt is out of control and that its economy is struggling — and the actual situation on the ground. She pointed out that Ontario’s growth has recently been the largest in the G7.
“The hardest thing for voters in this election,” she said, “is to figure out what the true facts are.”
Ghamari has already seen some controversy in this long election cycle. She won the nomination over Tysick, who complained in a recent Globe and Mail article that the “the fix was in,” from PC party brass. That was back in 2016.
Now, rumblings in Carleton have turned into a provincewide roar that has called into question what was previously thought to be a sure thing for the Tories. Which is not to totally count out an insurgent NDP.
First-time candidate Potter — a 22-year-old student, was one of the last candidates fielded by the NDP — and her campaign manager, Maureen Schiller, admitted that it’s a tough slog in conservative territory. But, she says, “we’re getting a lot of openness” to the NDP’s platform.
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