There will be an all candidates meeting for the Fleetwood-Port Kells riding sponsored by the Northwood United and Fleetwood Christian Reformed Churches.
Date: Apr 25 2011
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Fleetwood Christian Reformed Church
9165 160th Street Surrey
Please note that this will likely be the only all candidates meeting this election. Thanks to the two churches for putting this on.
The FHCA contacted the campaign offices of the three candidates and asked them to provide a brief summary explaining who they are and why voters in our community should vote for them. The Liberal and NDP offices provided responses – the Conservative office did not. We include the responses of Pam Dhanoa (Liberal) and Nao Fernando (NDP) below as well as the contact information for all candidates including Nina Grewal, the Conservative incumbent, and Alex Joehl, the Libertarian candidate. The Libertarian candidate was not contacted for the simple reason that we were not aware of his candidacy at the time. Sorry Alex and Libertarians. The Green Party candidate withdrew from the race.
Pam Dhanoa (Liberal)
This election provides the voters of Fleetwood – Port Kells with a clear choice between a Liberal vision of Canada that favours healthcare, education, and support for families, or a Conservative vision that favours prisons, F-35 fighter jets, and tax cuts for big corporations.
I’m a mother who has raised two sons in this community and know the challenges that families face. My husband Andy and I faced the same challenges ourselves and now that the boys are in University I feel it is time for me to give back to the community.
The Liberal Party represents my kind of vision of Canada. A tolerant,
caring, inclusive Canada that seeks to bring out the best in people, not a negative and divisive vision that seeks to protect us from the worst in people.
The Liberal Party platform is one that addresses the concerns and challenges of middle class Canadians in a positive, constructive, and pragmatic way.
The Liberal Family Pack includes;
The Learning Passport and the Canadian Learning Strategy that will
- provide up to $6,000 per student for post secondary education and will fund affordable, high-quality childcare and learning spaces
- Family Care and Health care that will help families caring for loved ones in their home and which guarantees 6% per year increases in Federal contributions to provincial health care programs
- A stronger public pension system for working Canadians that will expand the CPP, enhance the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) and offer a secure retirement option that will allow workers to voluntarily contribute to a pension savings plan.
The Liberal platform also includes measures to protect the environment, strengthen democracy and to achieve Canada’s full potential in the world.
In these difficult economic times we should remember that it was the
Liberals under jean Chretien and Paul Martin who balance the books and who left Stephen Harper with a $13 billion dollar surplus. In the last five years, the Conservatives have turned that surplus into a multi-billion dollar deficit.
Please take the time to review the platform at Liberal .ca.
Thank you.
Pam Dhanoa
Contact Info:
Office: 118 – 15299 68th Ave, Surrey
Phone: 604-572-3682
Website: www.liberal.ca/candidates/pam-dhanoa
Nao Fernando (NDP)
In 1998 the Government of British Columbia, through an Order in Council, appointed Nao as a Lay Bencher of the Law Society of BC, an organization which regulates the conduct of over 10,000 lawyers in the province. In 2006 Nao worked with the Barnston Island Preservation Society and spoke out to ensure that Barnston Island remained in the Agricultural Land Reserve. His opposition was critical to stopping developers from moving forward on applications to create industrial and commercial properties on the island.
Nao currently works as Employment Relations Officer for the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, a union of 57,000 members working as engineers, research scientists, nuclear physicists, doctors, lawyers, accountants and other professionals for the federal government. Nao, Deanna and their two sons have been living in Fraser Heights in the Riding of Fleetwood Port Kells since June, 1990.
Jack Layton and I want to:
- introduce legislation securing workplace pensions by moving unfunded pension liabilities to the top of the creditor’s list, not banks
- develop a plan to double the Canada Pension Plan over the next decade
- increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement to lift 300 000 seniors out of poverty and assist them with medications and essentials
- fully fund and ensure the GIS and Old Age Security are keeping up with the cost of living
New Democrats want to develop bulk buying and stop extending patent protection so that we may hold off on the exponential growth in medication costs that seniors are now grappling with.
Jack Layton and the New Democrats have developed the Quality Home Care Plan
- to provide 100,000 additional Canadian families access to basic home
- care
- to increase support for aids to independent living by doubling the forgivable loan available under the existing Home Adaptations for Seniors’ Independence (HASI) program – from $3,500 to $7,000, providing assistance to up to 10,570 individuals and families per year.
Please take the time to read our full platform on the web, at NDP.ca, and check out my web page at Naofernando.ca.
Thank you for your time and I ask for your support on May 2.
Sincerely, Nao Fernando
Contact Info:
Office: 305 – 15988 Fraser Highway, Surrey
Phone: 604-597-1714
Website: naofernando.ndp.ca
Nina Grewal (Conservative)
Contact Info:
Office: 103 – 15925 Fraser Highway, Surrey
Phone: 604-581-3386
Website: www.ninagrewal.ca
Alex Joehl (Libertarian)
Contact Info:
Phone: 778 862-4605
Website: www.libertarian.ca