Nancy Tremblay, NDP Candidate for Orléans

Nancy Tremblay, NDP Candidate for Orléans

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Nancy Tremblay is Non-Status Indian (First Nation) of Abenaki decent, she is the NDP candidate for the Ottawa riding of Orleans, Ontario.

Background and Experience

- Nancy is as a scientist with Environment Canada for nearly a decade, if elected her goal is to leader a return to evidence-based policy-making in Ottawa.

- She and her husband have built and run a large equestrian operation in Carlsbad Springs, they have also developed a software company selling products worldwide.

- Nancy is a founding member of the Orléans NDP riding association and is the Aboriginal Representative for the party’s Eastern Ontario caucus.

- Nancy has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from Trent University.

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Riding and History

- As a result of the 2003 electoral redistribution process, Orléans (formerly Ottawa-Orleans gains some territory and losses some to the surrounding ridings. The riding has a large Francophone population.

- The riding has a history of electing Liberals, however it switched Conservative in the 2004 election when the Conservative won a minority government.

- Orléans has an Aboriginal population of 2.4% of total Canadian population (2011).

Orléans - Candidates

Royal Galipeau, Conservative

Andrew Leslie, Liberal

TBD, Green

Sources:

http://nancytremblay.ndp.ca/about

https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/nancy-tremblay-winfield/32/926/608

https://www.facebook.com/Nancytremblaywinfield/info?tab=page_info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa—Orléans

National Party Leader's Speech to Assembly of First Nations - Annual General Assembly July 2015

39th Annual General Assembly

July 7 - 9, 2015

SPEECHES FROM NATIONAL PARTY LEADERS

ON FIRST NATIONS/INDIGENOUS ISSUES

This is important to share as it gives you a glimpse

of the platforms the various leaders will move forward 

with as we approach the upcoming election.

Thomas Mulcair  

Leader, NDP

Justin Trudeau

Leader, Liberal Party of Canada

Elizabeth May 

Leader, Green Party of Canada

The governing Conservative party did not send a 

representative to the Assembly.

Source: Assembly of First Nations (July 2015)

Della Anaquod, Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Regina - Qu'Appelle

Della Anaquod, Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Regina - Qu'Appelle 

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Della Anaquod is of Saulteaux, Cree and Dakota ancestry and is a member of the Muscowpetung First Nation. She is the Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Regina – Qu’Appelle.

Background and Experience

-For over 20 years, Della has served a number of leadership roles in higher learning institutions, including: 
Dean of School and Academic and Career Education at Saskatchewan Polytechnic; Dean of Enrolment Management at Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, where she was also a Instructor, lecturer and course development and curricular writer. 
-She was the Dean of Student Services at the First Nations University of Canada (SIFC), where she was played a leadership role on Board of Governors - including being the Chairperson. Della was also sessional lecturer and academic assistant. Her background includes teaching posts in the business management field and the law course for the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada.

-Della has been the Regional Manager for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Association. She has previously served as the Board President for the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network. She also worked for the Office of the Treaty Commissioner.

-She has an impressive educational background that includes Bachelor of Administration from the University of Regina, a Bachelor of Arts in Indian Studies and Economics from the First Nations University of Canada, a Juris Doctor from the University of Saskatchewan, a MBA in Executive Management Education Administration from Royal Roads University.

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Riding History

- The riding changed very little as a result of the 2013 electoral redistribution process. It includes the northeast part of Regina and the rural area stretches out to the Qu’Apelle valley.

- The current MP and Conservative candidate is \ who currently serves as Speaker of the House of Commons.

- The Aboriginal population of the riding is 22.5% (2011) of total Canadian citizen population. Piapot First Nation owns the Creeland Mini-Mart in the riding.

- In addition to the urban Aboriginal community Regina, Regina-Qu’Apelle includes many Cree (Nehiyawak), Saulteaux (Anishinabe) and Assiniboine (Nakoda) First Nations throughout the riding.

Candidates for Regina Qu’Apelle

Gregory Chatterson, Green Party

Nial Kuyek, NDP

Andrew Scheer, Conservative

  

Sources:

https://www.facebook.com/dellaforreginaquappelle

https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/della-anaquod/5b/284/b28

http://fnuniv.ca/images/BoG/Board_of_Governors_Bios_FNUniv_Oct10_2014.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina—Qu%27Appelle

Brenda Sayers Green Party Candidate for North Island - Powell River

Brenda Sayers Green Party Candidate for North Island - Powell River

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Brenda Sayers from the Hupacasath First Nation and comes from a traditional line of hereditary Chiefs and is the Green Party candidate for North Island – Power River.

Background and Experience

-Brenda has been the Financial Administrator of Haahuupayak School since 1996, an independent school teaching Nuu-chah-nulth language and culture to Indigenous children.

-Brenda has served a term as Councillor for the Hupacasath First Nation and has sit on several band committees. She was also the Director of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council.

- She has been a leader organizer for her nation and the larger community against the enactment of FIPPA. She was instrumental in the Hupacasath lawsuit against Canada for lack of consultation.

-Brenda currently sits on the board for Crime Stoppers and previously she sat on the BC Transit Board.

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Riding History

-North Island – Powell River was a previously created riding that was dissolved in 1997. It has been recreated with parts of the former Vancouver Island North riding and West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country. The new riding includes the northern portion of Vancouver Island and coastal communities north of the GVA.

-The incumbent of Vancouver Island North is Conservative MP John Duncan, who was a former Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs. He later resigned for inappropriate communication to the Tax Court of Canada.

-Duncan decided to run as the CPC candidate for Courtenay-Alberni and the other MP for the former riding is not running again. Which means that there are incumbents running North Island – Powell River.

-The Aboriginal population of North Island – Powell River is 10,560 or 10.6% (2011), and it includes several Nuu-chah-nulth nations.

Candidates for North Island – Powell River

Rachel Blaney, NDP

Peter Schwarzhoff, Liberal Party

Laura Smith, Conservative (no website)

Sources:

https://www.greenparty.ca/en/riding/2013-59037

http://greensofnorthisland-powellriver.ca/brenda-sayers-candidate

http://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2015-05-28/brenda-sayers-sets-sights-ottawa-green-party-nomination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Island—Powell_River

Jonathan Genest-Jourdain MP and NDP candidate for Manicouagan

Jonathan Genest-Jourdain MP and NDP candidate for Manicouagan

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Jonathan Genest-Jourdain is Innu from the Uashat reserve. He is the current MP and NDP candidate for Manicouagan in Quebec.

Background and Experience

-Jonathan is a lawyer who studied at Laval University and then took the mandatory training through École du Barreau du Québec before being called to the Bar of Quebec.

-He was a lawyer for Bureau d'aide juridique Sept-Îles that provides legal aid services. He went on to be a Legal Advisor to Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-utenam community.

-Jonathan ran as the NDP candidate for Manicouagan for the 2011 federal election, he beat the incumbent MP as part of the “Orange Wave” for the NDP in the province of Quebec.

-He is the NDP Deputy Critic for Aboriginal Affairs and he sits on the Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Northern Development. He introduced Motion 533 that instructed the government to provide broader consultation with First Nations on natural resource development projects. Which was supported by all parties, except the Conservatives who defeated the motion.

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Riding History

-Much like most of the ridings in Quebec, as part of the “Orange Wave” NDP candidates were elected throughout the province in ridings that never elected NDP in the past. Manicouagan has a history of electing Bloc Québécois, Progressive Conservative and Liberal MPs.

-Jonathan beat incumbent BQ MP Gérard Asselin by almost 6000 votes, Gérard held the riding since 2004.

-Manicouagan has an Aboriginal population of 13,380 or 14.4% (2011) and includes several Innu communities.

Candidates for Manicouagan

Yvon Boudreau, Conservative (no website)

Marilene Gill, Bloc Québécois (no website)

Mario Tremblay, Liberal

Sources:

http://jonathangenestjourdain.ndp.ca

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/onathan_Genest-Jourdain

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Jonathan-Genest-Jourdain(71458)