Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi, part of the Green Party ripple that leads to the wave that sweeps Vancouver Island?
Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi is Kwakiutl/Quatsino ancestry and former
Chief of Quatsino First Nation on Vancouver Island. She is the Green Party of
Canada candidate for the new riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford.
Experience and Accomplishments:
-Fran has an impressive educational background that includes
a Bachelor of Social Work, Masters of Adult Education and studies towards a PhD
in Philosophy.
-She is an entrepreneur who owns a bistro in Langford and is
a consulting business focusing on community capacity building.
-Her professional background includes: Director of the
Office of Indigenous Affairs at the University of Victoria and Manager of the
First Peoples House. She has also served
as Director at Saanich Adult Education Centre.
-In addition to being Chief, she has played a leadership
role as Acting Principal at K’ak’ot’latsi School and Chair of the Indigenous
Adult & Higher Learning Association.
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Riding History
Cowichan-Malahat-Langford is a new riding created as a
result of the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission. It is comprised of
the former ridings Nanaimo-Cowichan and Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca. Neither of the
MPs of the previously mentioned ridings will be running in this new riding. The
riding has an Aboriginal population of 9.1% (2011).
Polling aggregator ThreeHundredEight analysis suggests that
if the Greens were to make a breakthrough it would be in BC for the most part, particularly
Vancouver Island. Consider Saanich-Gulf
Islands where the Greens captured 10.4% in 2008 to capturing 46.33% in 2011 to
elect Elizabeth May. The Greens put a great deal of effort and resources to get
May elected and establish a beachhead. Vancouver Island may well be the beachhead
that turns into a “Green” island.
On a related note, Brenda Sayers was recently acclaimed GPC candidate for North Island–Powell River and will be profiled in a future blog.
2015 Candidates for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford
Alistair MacGregor, NDP
Maria Manna, Liberal
Paul Cortens, Libertarian
TBD, Conservative
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