April Bourgeois looking to taking Regina-Wascana for the Orange Team
April Bourgeois is a member of
the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and is the federal NDP candidate for Regina-Wascana.
Experience and Accomplishments
-External Director of the
Saskatchewan Indian Equity Foundation which is a Aboriginal financial
institution that offers development lending to First Nations businesses.
-April is the founding publisher
of Prairie Dog (Regina) and Planet S (Saskatoon) magazines that focus on news, arts
and entertainment.
-She has served on the Canadian
Community Economic Development Network’s national policy council and the
national board of The Cooperators.
-April has a Bachelor of Arts
(Anthropology) the University of Regina and a Master of Management from St.
Mary University.
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Riding History
-Regina-Wascana is a riding that
encompasses the southwest quadrant of the city of Regina and small part of the
surrounding rural municipalities. With the 2013 electoral boundary commission
changes, the riding loses much of the rural district that was included in the
predecessor Wascana riding. It has been suggested that the NDP will do better
in the new urban ridings of Saskatchewan which lost much of their rural vote,
which tended to vote Conservative.
-The current MP for Wascana first
elected in 1993 and Liberal Party candidate for the 2015 election is Ralph
Goodale. He was Finance Minister for the Paul Martin government and Federal
Interlocutor for Metis and Non-Status Indians for the Chretien government.
-Based of the 2011 census the
riding has an Aboriginal population of 5,355 or 7.6%.
2015 Regina-Wascana Candidates
Ralph Goodale, Liberal
Michael Kram, Conservative
Frances Simonson, Green
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