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Election candidates head into the home stretch
With less than a week until next Monday’s federal election, the Yukon’s candidates are gearing up for a final week of campaigning.
With less than a week until next Monday’s federal election, the Yukon’s candidates are gearing up for a final week of campaigning.
All five candidates will attend two final debates this week.
The first, hosted by the CBC, will take place at the Coast High Country Inn from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. The second will take place at Vanier Catholic Secondary School at 1 p.m. Thursday.
The candidates’ remaining campaign plans are listed below in random order.
Liberal incumbent Larry Bagnell will spend the week campaigning in Whitehorse. He will be visiting with students at F.H. Collins Secondary School and Christ the King Elementary School.
The People’s Party of Canada candidate, Joseph Zelezny, will attend a meet-and-greet at 4:30 p.m. today at the Ross River Recreation Centre.
From there, he’ll head to the Sportsman’s Lounge at the Faro Recreation Centre at at 7 p.m.
On Wednesday, Zelezny will be available to speak with voters at the Gold Panner restaurant at lunchtime in Carmacks.
Over the coming weekend, Zelezny will canvass in Watson Lake, Teslin and Dawson.
NDP candidate Justin Lemphers planned to speak with students at Christ the King Elementary School this morning.
Lemphers will be at Baked Café at around 2 p.m. Wednesday.
He will be at Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters at 9 a.m. Thursday and at The Claim at 10:30 a.m.
Lemphers will be on CBC Yukon’s Airplay program between 5 and 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
On Friday, Lemphers will be canvassing in Teslin. He will spend the remainder of the weekend canvassing in Whitehorse.
Conservative candidate Jonas Smith planned to attend a Q&A at Hidden Valley School today and at Christ the King tomorrow.
Smith will spend the remainder of the week canvassing in Whitehorse.
Green candidate Lenore Morris met with the chief of the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation chief and Executive Director today.
On Thursday, Morris will visit Christ the King Elementary School and attend an interview with the CBC.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May will give an address to Yukoners through a live video conference at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre at 5 p.m. Saturday. The local campaign is calling the event “The Future is Green”.
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anonymous on Oct 21, 2019 at 10:21 pm
I, for one, am so fearful of our future for our children in education. Many people do not know what is happening. With a Liberal gov in place ( yes I know he is a drama teacher) say goodbye to your student's achievement and ability to compete in university for the next four or more years. Ask around.
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Question on Oct 18, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Can some reporter please ask Jonas Smith why he asked everyone to sing the national anthem in a way that respects our veterans (at the CBC debate)? Was he referring to the change in wording from 'thy sons' to 'all of us'? If so, that is incredibly disrespectful to all of our female vets, including those who perished in battle. Hopefully this isn't what Jonas meant, but if it is... wow.
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Groucho d'North on Oct 17, 2019 at 5:47 pm
Each of the local candidates have values to be considered in how they will represent Yukoners in Ottawa. But keep in mind Yukon is only one seat in a total of 338, so to be fair this election is about which political party gets to form government for the nation. That does not mean our Yukon issues do not deserve to be carried to the floor of the House of Commons. So who will do this best as either a member of government or opposition? Remember, Larry still has visible whip marks on his voting record.
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Oya on Oct 17, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Wow, June. What a well thought-out, well researched, well written letter.
Although I had no intentions of ever voting for Trudeau, your letter gives me so much more fodder to confirm that choice. If I wasn't convinced before, I sure am now! Thank you for laying out his true colours so completely and succinctly.
Larry Bagnell, you should make sure your boss gets to read June's letter!
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Juniper Jackson on Oct 17, 2019 at 3:01 am
Why I won't vote Liberal:
Things I considered before I voted...
Morneau, the Minister of Finance engaged in insider trading. Also forgot about his villa in France for which he was charged, found guilty and fined. He also forgot about a Corporation he owns with his wife.
Trudeau/Freeland blew the Asia Pacific deal.
Trudeau blew the helicopter deal with the Philippines.
Trudeau has created poor international relationships.. and China is a big one right now..
Trudeau blew the deal with Europe.
Trudeau wordsmith-ed illegal and invited "irregular" immigration and the taxpayer foots the enormous bill for it.
Trudeau alienated the United States – our largest trading partner.
At the G7 you pledged $400 million to Education around the world along with another $180 million to the Global Partnership for Education in Europe. None of it is going to fix our messed up school systems here at home. Meanwhile education costs are skyrocketing for our youth making university a mountain too high for many to climb.
You pledged $241 million to Family Planning around the world including a $20 million donation to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation (because they have integrity!). This all happened while you told vets that they were asking too much.
You pledged $2.65 billion to climate change at the Commonwealth Leaders Summit and now you’re trying to bully the provinces into new taxes to pay for this pledge.
You pledged $300 million to the Rohingya Refugee crisis while we have a refugee crisis of our own flooding into Quebec that you won't address.
You pledged $125 million to Caribbean Reconstruction while our own infrastructure in cities is falling apart.
You pledged $650 million to Sexual and Reproductive health in Haiti and around the globe wanting safer abortions for woman while many women in our own country are left without a family doctor.
You pledged $840 million to Syria for Humanitarian Assistance when half the native reserves in our country don't have clean drinking water.
You gave $10.5 million to a convicted...CONVICTED terrorist in a backroom deal. You intentionally paid it out in a way that prevented the widow of the killed soldier from pursuing it.
You spent $4.5 billion on a 65 year old pipeline, and now the courts have ruled it shut down. Now it's back on (at a delay cost of $250 million) - good investment for Canada you said? (And KM uses that money to build a pipeline in Texas)
You pressured Jody Wilson Raybould repeatedly & INAPPROPRIATELY with several different high ranking officials to offer SNC Lavalin a DPA instead of prosecution for repeated & sustained corruption AFTER the former AG had determined they were ineligible for such a deal. You lied about the above having ever taken place. Then you obstructed the investigation into this obstruction of justice.
You replaced Canada’s old F-18s with Australia’s old F-18s.
Your bizarre love of all things Castro.
You imposed tough regulations and taxes on oil from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland but not oil from Saudi Arabia. Every new project has to undergo strict environmental assessments...except cement plants in Quebec.
You said that a proposed pipeline must consider “the intersection of sex and gender with other identity factors” (what does that even mean???)
You chase foreign companies (and their investment capital) out of the country like they have the plague.
You chased our WW1 soldiers out of our national anthem... lest we forget.
You called small business owners “tax cheats”.
People voice concern over money spent on illegal immigration and you call them intolerant racists. Your side kick, Butts, called us Nazi's, and we were called neanderthals.. what was with all the name calling?
We have an equalization program, but you give half of it to one province.
You spent $8 million on a skating rink (vanity project) when Canada's largest skating rink is 500 meters away.
You added tens of billions to the national debt while lying to Canada's face about it. Balance the budget in 2019? Now we’re looking at 2040.
You groped a woman and when caught and said she experienced it differently.
You elbowed a female MP while dragging another MP by the arm in a petulant fit.
Peoplekind? (international embarrassment)
You got India to invest $250 million in Canada but we have to invest $750 million in India first.
You said returning terrorists will be an extraordinarily powerful voice for Canada.
You fought to let terrorists keep their Canadian citizenship, and they are here living among the very people they were killing.
You spent $212,234 on artwork for the cover of the 2017 budget report.
You spent upwards to $348,000 on food and alcohol in five flights on our government’s plane. On your G20 trip to Argentina, you spent $103,000 on food and alcohol alone. How is that even possible?
You gave Canadian taxpayers' money to Hamas, an international terrorist organization.
You voice outrage over fake racist attacks and say nothing about real terrorist attacks.
You took 10 vacations in a single year at taxpayers expense. Who does this?
You spent a little over $1.5 million on the trip to India that did nothing but worsen ties. Plus paid over $17,000 to bring an Indian chef to India to cook Indian cuisine. And to top it off, invited a convicted attempted murderer to dinner and posed for pics with him.
And you’re the only PM convicted of ethics violations. (multiple times in fact)
You destroyed the career of one of Canada’s honest military leaders to cover up possible massive corruption in ship building contracts.
You invited Joshua Boyle, an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault and unlawful confinement of his wife for a photo shoot in the Office of The Prime Minister.
You threaten to sue the leader of the opposition then chicken out when you realized that your alleged crimes will be exposed in court.
You offer over $600 million dollars in subsidies to failing mainstream media outlets if they can prove to be trustworthy. You put a union who vows to destroy your opposition in charge of selecting these new “trusted” sources to receive funding. You could school the Russians in election interference.
You pay off your friends to engage in election ads for you and get Elections Canada to pay for it.
$13 million to Loblaws for new refrigerators.
You made public statements of deep admiration for Chinese communism.
You wore preposterous, inappropriate costumes during a state visit to India, paid for by Canadians.
Almost $13 billion in promises right before calling the election.
Blackface. 3 times that were caught on film. Raised in a highly political family, you claim you didn't know it was wrong? Wow.
What moral, functioning Canadian human could possible justify voting for you?
I didn't talk about Khadr or the 30 million to 3 other terrorists, I didn't talk about taking 2 planes from Montreal to.. Montreal! then screaming environment. One could go on for a long long time. Andres Scheer might not be setting the world on fire, but he's clean as a whistle, has promised to clean up a corrupt caucus with fines for misbehavior, and has said, he will spend money IN Canada. I will never forgive the Trudeau government for sending our money out of the country while Canadian's are sleeping on the streets, under bus benches. Food banks have tripled under his watch, crime has escalated. Everyone should vote however their conscious finds acceptable.. but, please, think about it.
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Rolf on Oct 16, 2019 at 11:32 pm
Former president Barack Obama has tweeted an endorsement of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and says he hopes Canadians give Trudeau "another term" in office. Recommendations don't come from a better source than this!
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Obi on Oct 16, 2019 at 2:46 pm
Liberals in power! Yuk!
Society is like a stew...if you don't stir it up every once in awhile, then a layer of
scum floats to the top. Vote Conservative!
Do we want to live in a Democracy under the rule of law, or do we wish to live under the rule of the doofus, despot Trudeau?
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Davis on Oct 16, 2019 at 8:53 am
There are too many options for progressive voters which results in the progressive vote being split three ways. Liberals are not my first choice but it seems the options are either conservative or liberal, pick the lesser of two evils.
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Snowman on Oct 16, 2019 at 12:50 am
Yukon is about to elect a Conservative as our representative, one who is more obsessed with guns then anything which will impact people's daily lives. He is constantly writing articles to gun mags (as a gun owner I see them on a regular basis). Current poll is 36% Con, 35% Lib, 15% NDP and 9% Green.
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Snowman on Oct 16, 2019 at 12:50 am
Yukon is about to elect a Conservative as our representative, one who is more obsessed with guns then anything which will impact people's daily lives. He is constantly writing articles to gun mags (as a gun owner I see them on a regular basis). Current poll is 36% Con, 35% Lib, 15% NDP and 9% Green.
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Yukoner53 on Oct 16, 2019 at 12:45 am
Stold this comment but it's so true: "Its hard to believe that with all of the craziness going on in the U.S. right now under the Conservatives, and the Brexit disaster brought on by Conservatives in the U.K. - we are on the verge of electing our own conservative government which has similar isolationist policies like cutting foreign aid and backing away from the U.N. We are a hair's width away from becoming part of this circus under American Andy Scheer. Unreal."
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Guncache on Oct 15, 2019 at 7:48 pm
PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T VOTE FOR LARRY. A vote for Larry is a vote for Trudeau. Trudeau is ruining Canada in record time. The liberal party is quite liberal with taxpayer tax dollars. Not only did they give a convicted ISIS terrorist murderer $10 million, they gave three other muslims at least $10 million each. The liberals let 45,000 illegal immigrant invaders cross illegally into Canada. Your tax dollars are paying their rent, food, dental, medical. They are ignoring seniors and veterans.
They have the RCMP in their pocket because no charges have been laid in the SNC Lavalin incident. He dismissed Jody Wilson Raybould from cabinet because she exposed the corruption. He imposed a carbon tax on Canada, one of the cleanest countries there is. Gee I wonder why the US doesn't have a carbon tax? He loves doing black face while at the same time saying we are racist. He loves to apologize because he doesn't know what he's doing. China and India can't stand him. The list goes on.
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Spud on Oct 15, 2019 at 4:03 pm
These debates have simply become too many too fast. A Crown backed Corporation like CBC should have leadership that realizes this...Time for a change...Send them to Nunavut.
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Logan on Oct 15, 2019 at 2:55 pm
Time to retire Larry