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Printed Feb 09, 2025 • 2 minute learn
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Extra candidates have joined the race to be Sarnia-Lambton’s member of provincial parliament.
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Sarnia-Lambton’s Liberal Get together candidate Rachel Willsie, pursuing a grasp’s degree on the College of Windsor, mentioned she began her political science research as a result of she desires to assist change coverage.
“Because when you’re working in healthcare and you see the deficits and you’re trying to have the concerns in healthcare addressed, management only has so much capacity,” mentioned the registered sensible nurse and nursing teacher at Lambton School since 2006.
“It really is driven through policy and funding models.”
Willsie, who has labored in long-term care and for 15 years in acute care at Bluewater Well being in Sarnia, mentioned her research are centered on coverage suggestions associated to the Municipal Act and housing.
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She referred to as it “an onerous political subject that needs some resolution.”
The Port Franks native who mentioned she’s operating as a result of she believes “our community deserves leadership that’s going to listen and advocate for strong results,” mentioned she comes from a multi-generation farming household, although she didn’t develop up on a farm herself.
Rachel Willsie is the Liberal Get together candidate in Sarnia-Lambton for the 2025 Ontario election. (Handout) jpg, SO, apsmc
Willsie was holding a marketing campaign launch occasion in Sarnia Sunday.
She mentioned she’s not happy with the snap election name, noting voting has been obtainable with out all candidates but declared.
She referred to as that unfair and undemocratic.
An Elections Ontario official mentioned write-in ballots can be found till Feb. 19. An inventory of candidates is up to date as individuals declare at elections.on.ca, and names start showing on ballots Feb. 20, communications coordinator David Pearce mentioned in an e-mail.
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Turnout knowledge for write-in ballots will likely be obtainable after the Feb. 27 election, he mentioned.
New Blue’s Keith Benn, who additionally ran for the occasion in Sarnia-Lambton in 2022, and in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex in final 12 months’s by-election, just lately confirmed his candidacy.
Keith Benn is the New Blue Get together candidate in Sarnia-Lambton for the 2025 Ontario election. (Handout) jpg, SO, apsmc
The previous educational on the College of Ottawa and unbiased geological marketing consultant within the minerals business is initially from Wallaceburg and lives in Port Lambton.
In a Fb publish, Benn mentioned his priorities embody political accountability, elevated entry to different types of training, improved healthcare, a sustainable farming and meals sector, tax aid, and fostering financial development.
Former Sarnia metropolis councillor Nathan Colquhoun has additionally joined the race, as an unbiased.
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“Sarnia-Lambton is being left behind by a system that puts political loyalty before real representation,” mentioned the Sarnia Journal proprietor and Sarnia-native entrepreneur at nathancolquhoun.com.
Colquhoun, who ran unsuccessfully for Sarnia mayor in 2022, mentioned he helps “workers over corporations, public services over privatization, and accountability over political theatre.
Nathan Colquhoun is running as an independent candidate in the Sarnia-Lambton riding in the 2025 Ontario election. (File photo) Handout
He added he wants representation for Sarnia-Lambton focused on local needs, “not what’s dictated from Toronto.”
Bob Bailey is operating for the Progressive Conservatives within the driving he’s held since 2007.
Candace Younger, one other educational, who teaches math at Lambton School, is operating for the NDP.
Jacques Boudreau is operating for the Libertarian Get together.
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