Egmont Riding Gets Two New Candidates

Two New Candidates for Egmont Riding

S. RYAN QUIGLEY

JOURNAL PIONEER

Party officials confirm two more names for the Egmont riding today.

NDP officials confirm that Jacquie Robichaud, wife of the late Gary Robichaud, former leader of the P.E.I. NDP, will be their candidate for the Egmont riding.

Green Party officials also confirmed that Carl Arnold, teacher at Summerside Intermediate, will be joining the race.

Arnold said he would be happy if his campaign just got voters to look at the Green Party’s platform.

“My concern is that if by the end of this election a few more people have taken the time to go and look at the Green Party policy, that would be wonderful. However, I would be just as happy if they went and examined the policy of whatever policy they wanted to vote for.”

The green party isn’t worried about partisan politics and not worried about doing whatever it takes to get power, said Arnold.

“Canadians have some serious issues to deal with in the coming years and to do that, we’re going to have to seriously discuss ideas, platforms and policies. And currently we’re not doing that.”

The biggest concern with Canadian voters he talked to was losing faith in the government, said Arnold.

“Last election 1 million voters voted for the Green Party. If Canadians want to give the Liberals or Conservatives a scare, they have another place they can park the vote, they can vote for the Green Party. Scare those parties into policy that might actually help.”

Canadians in every riding have to do a little better job educating themselves, said Arnold.

“It’s to easy to blame the politicians for all our problems. Nothing will change until Canadians become more informed about what is actually going on and the Green Party actually wants you to examine their platform and examine their party.”

The two join Liberal nominee Guy Gallant and Conservative incumbent Gail Shea as the four candidates for the position.

The deadline is April 11 at two p.m. for any other nominations.