The Thunder Bay—Superior North driving consists of the north aspect of Thunder Bay, in addition to a lot of municipalities alongside the north shore of Lake Superior together with Marathon, Schreiber, Terrace Bay and Nipigon. It additionally consists of the huge Greenstone municipality.
The driving boundaries additionally embody a number of First Nations communities, comparable to Ginoogaming, Aroland, Lengthy Lake 58 and Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek.
Thunder Bay—Superior North covers an space of about 93,000 sq. kilometres, and as of the 2016 Census, had a inhabitants of simply over 70,000.
The candidates in alphabetical order by surname are as follows:
Rick Dumas, PC
Rick Dumas is the long-serving mayor of Marathon, Ont. He was acclaimed for his fifth time period in 2022. He additionally runs the Thunder Bay District Municipal League. Dumas has served as a vice-president with the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Affiliation (NOMA) and a board member with the Affiliation of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO).
Brian Hamilton, Liberal
Whereas Brian Hamilton is a first-time provincial election candidate, he has earlier expertise in municipal politics. He was elected as a Thunder Bay metropolis councillor for McKellar Ward in 2018. He’s at present in his second time period.
Hamilton has additionally owned a number of companies within the metropolis and is the president of the Bay & Algoma Enterprise Affiliation.
John Northey, Inexperienced
John Northey was beforehand the Inexperienced Occasion candidate for Thunder Bay—Atikokan within the 2014 and 2018 provincial elections.
Lise Vaugeois, NDP
Present incumbent Lise Vaugeois was elected in 2022. Vaugeois beforehand ran in 2018, however completed second to Liberal Michael Gravelle who had held the seat since he was first elected in 1995.
Vaugeois is an adjunct professor at Lakehead College, small enterprise proprietor, and has served on the board of administrators for a lot of group organizations.
