Conservative MP Absent From a Child Poverty Forum in Southwestern Manitoba.
Are hungry kids a priority for the Harper government? by Larry Powell The forum (for the riding of Dauphin - Swan River - Neepawa) was sponsored by the Mission and Services Committee of the Neepawa United Church. It drew about 80 people to the church on Wednesday. But only four of the five candidates (see below) took part in the debate - Ray PichĆ© (Liberal), Kate Storey (Green Party), Inky Mark (Ind.) and Laverne Lewycky (NDP) . The 5th candidate, the sitting Conservative MP for the area, Robert Sopuck (represented by the empty chair on the right), did not attend. His office manager in Neepawa, Christine Waddell, said he was in Inglis, a small community in the western part of the riding for the evening. She did not elaborate. But she did explain that a campaign worker was mistaken when he told forum organizers earlier that Mr. Sopuck would, in fact be there. PichĆ© , the Liberal candidate, said the MP's absence showed “disrespect” for the rest of the candidates
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Maggie
Well researched and written.
I will find time, sometime, to post the information that adds to your documentation of the corruption of the PMRA (Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Health Canada). They work for the Corporate interest, not to protect Health. Just one example: they put Dr. Keith Solomon from the University of Guelph on the review panel that made the decision about 2,4-D. He was “for hire” by the tobacco industry before he became a paid “professional” for the chem-biotech corporations. In the 1990′s he came to Regina on his own dime, out of the goodness of his heart (ha!) to speak against the introduction of a cosmetic pesticide by-law there.
Sandra Finlay
Kate Storey,
Organic farmer,
Green Party of Canada