North Vancouver: Carleen Thomas
Will She turn the tide NDP Orange for the first time in the riding's history?
Note: There are many excellent non-Indigenous candidates throughout all the ridings; our focus is on the Indigenous candidates.
It’s been a while since we have blogged about one of the
candidates we are profiling within our blog. One of these reasons being is that
we are waiting for candidates to be nominated. If another candidate is
Indigenous that changes the approach to how we profile these candidates.
Today we are profiling Carleen Thomas who is the NDP
candidates for North Vancouver. Carleen
is from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation on the west coast of Vancouver.
Experience and
Accomplishments:
· - Carleen brings great leadership skills to the
table and would be an asset to the NDP; she has been elected Tsleil-Waututh
Nation Chief and Council eight terms of 16 years.
· - She held various leaders roles for her nation,
such as Community Development, Manager of Education, Community Engagement Hub
to name a few.
· - She has also been her nation’s representative on
the Nautsamawt Tribal Council, North Vancouver School District, Capilano
University and Simon Fraser University.
· - Carleen has worked as a member of Tsleil-Waututh
Nation’s Sacred Trust Initiative, opposing Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain
Pipeline expansion.
You can find Carleen's social media contacts on our Indigenous Candidates page.
Click on image to expand.
Riding History
With the 2003 riding redistribution process, North Vancouver
did see some changes to the riding as show in the maps. The riding includes the
city and District of North Vancouver.
The riding also includes the Mission Indian Reserve (Eslhá7an).
The riding has a history
of electing Conservative MPs, however the Liberals did take the riding for a
short stint and generally coming second place. That being stated, we just
witnessed provincial NDP candidates win in Calgary and indeed within Prime
Minister Stephen Harper’s riding.
Candidates running for other parties:
Green Martin, Claire
CPC Saxton, Andrew
Lbtn Watt, Laurence
RIDING MAP CLICK TO ENLARGE
Special thanks to Pundits Guide who keeps an extensive database on candidates.
Sources
- http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/Remarkable-Women-poster-2014-Carleen-Thomas.pdf (2015
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vancouver_(electoral_district) (2015)
- http://www.elections.ca/res/cir/maps2/mapprov.asp?map=59021&lang=e (2015)
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