Thunder Bay-Superior North Candidates’ Night (+VIDEO)
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Liberal Candidate Yves Fricot responds to another constiuent's question.
NDP incumbent, Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Bruce Hyer took time to continue answering questions after the event.
MARATHON, ON – Wednesday, April 6th, St. John’s United Church hosted the first Candidates’ Night for candidates of the federal riding of Thunder Bay-Superior North. The evening was well attended, approximately 200 in attendance, by residents of Marathon & Pic River First Nation and even a few constituents from the nearby community of Schreiber.
Candidates were respectful of the moderator, each other and the audience; the latter had opportunity to address questions to the incumbent, NDP candidate, MP Bruce Hyer; Liberal candidate Yves Fricot, PC candidate Richard Harvey and Green Party candidate Scot Kyle. Among those who queried candidates were several residents of Pic River First Nation including the Hon. Chief Roy Michano. OntarioNewsNorth.com provided a live broadcast of the evening thanks to an internet connection provided by the Church (the internet connection was, unfortunately, weak, causing some very brief pauses in coverage – none the less it is available to view in the Video On Demand Library). Candidate Yves Fricot contracted OntarioNewsNorth.com to also record a seperate video of the evening, this is the result of that videography. (Unfortunately the closing remarks are not included, this is a great reminder that a minimum of one week is required when booking videography of events to ensure they will be captured in their entirety).
3 of the 4 candidates chose to also participate in individual interviews after the event, links to those videos, recorded live, are available below.
Constituents in the riding of Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing please note that the Candidates’ Night for your riding will be broadcast Live! on OntarioNewsNorth.com, Thursday, April 28th at 6:30pm from the Manitouwadge High School theatre in Manitouwadge. CFNO’s News Director, Al Cresswell, will mediate this event, which has been organized by political activist and volunteer, Natalie Labbee (Manitouwadge).
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- View interview with Liberal candidate Yves Fricot (Entrevue bilingue)
- View interview with NDP incumbent Bruce Hyer
- View interview wtih Green Party candidate Scot Kyle
- PC candidate Richard Harvey declined the opportunity for a live interview and though he offered to have an interview via Skype at a later date has not, as of yet, been in contact to do so.
Liberal candidate Yves Fricot responds to the query of a constituent regarding discrepancies between funding provided for Native and non-aboriginal students. Candidates spoke to this question again afterwards in their live interviews with OntarioNewsNorth.com (see links below article).
Standing room only in the basement of St. John's United Church in Marathon, April 6th at the Thunder Bay-Superior North Candidates' Night.
Questions which came from the audience were interesting, respectful and seemed quite representative of those being asked by many constituents in Thunder Bay-Superior North.
PC candidate, Nipigon Mayor Richard Harvey, meets constiuents after the event.
Liberal candidate, Yves Fricot continues to answer constituents' questions after the event.
