Gingras earns NDP nomination in federal North Okanagan-Shuswap riding
Jacqui Gingras was selected
today
by
New
Democratic
Party
members
in
the
North
Okanagan-‐Shuswap
riding
to
carry
the
party’s
banner
in
the
next
federal
election.
“I am honored, excited and prepared to carry forward the fight for everyday Canadians living in the North Okanagan-‐Shuswap,” Jacqui said after earning the nomination in a balloting process held in Armstrong this afternoon.
“It’s time for a change. The Conservative government has proven divisive in its policy-‐making and unresponsive in its representation. My campaign will focus on giving a voice back to constituents. We are Better Together.”
With a federal election expected in 2015, Jacqui says her focus over the next six months will be to meet with people in the North Okanagan-‐Shuswap and develop a better sense of their priorities and concerns — an effort she has already started to undertake.
“People I have spoken with across our riding have shared with me their concerns about the environment, about jobs, and about our future,” Jacqui said. “Based on the federal Conservatives many recent debacles, we have a strong case to make for change — we can’t continue in the same way and expect different outcomes.”
Jacqui lives with her spouse and two children on a self-‐sustaining property near Falkland. She is a tenured professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. “Like so many other Canadians, my work takes me away from home; my heart, however, remains in the North Okanagan-‐Shuswap.”
Jacqui describes herself as a “coffee-‐drinking, food-‐loving, question-‐asking, left-‐leaning, manuscript-‐writing, classroom-‐teaching, wife-‐adoring, cyclist mom of two pretty hilarious kids.”
She encourages conversation and welcomes questions, comments and good old-‐fashioned discussion in person, via Twitter and Facebook, or over the phone.
The North Okanagan-‐Shuswap riding was created with the 2012 redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts and includes about 112,000 residents in the cities of Vernon, Salmon Arm and Armstrong, the District Municipality of Sicamous, the Regional District of North Okanagan and a portion of the Columbia-‐ Shuswap Regional District..Newly added to the riding is the town of Edgewood. It also includes the Salmon River Indian Reserve No. 1., the North Bay Indian Reserve No. 5 and part of the Okanagan Indian Reserve No. 1.
“I am honored, excited and prepared to carry forward the fight for everyday Canadians living in the North Okanagan-‐Shuswap,” Jacqui said after earning the nomination in a balloting process held in Armstrong this afternoon.
“It’s time for a change. The Conservative government has proven divisive in its policy-‐making and unresponsive in its representation. My campaign will focus on giving a voice back to constituents. We are Better Together.”
With a federal election expected in 2015, Jacqui says her focus over the next six months will be to meet with people in the North Okanagan-‐Shuswap and develop a better sense of their priorities and concerns — an effort she has already started to undertake.
“People I have spoken with across our riding have shared with me their concerns about the environment, about jobs, and about our future,” Jacqui said. “Based on the federal Conservatives many recent debacles, we have a strong case to make for change — we can’t continue in the same way and expect different outcomes.”
Jacqui lives with her spouse and two children on a self-‐sustaining property near Falkland. She is a tenured professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. “Like so many other Canadians, my work takes me away from home; my heart, however, remains in the North Okanagan-‐Shuswap.”
Jacqui describes herself as a “coffee-‐drinking, food-‐loving, question-‐asking, left-‐leaning, manuscript-‐writing, classroom-‐teaching, wife-‐adoring, cyclist mom of two pretty hilarious kids.”
She encourages conversation and welcomes questions, comments and good old-‐fashioned discussion in person, via Twitter and Facebook, or over the phone.
The North Okanagan-‐Shuswap riding was created with the 2012 redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts and includes about 112,000 residents in the cities of Vernon, Salmon Arm and Armstrong, the District Municipality of Sicamous, the Regional District of North Okanagan and a portion of the Columbia-‐ Shuswap Regional District..Newly added to the riding is the town of Edgewood. It also includes the Salmon River Indian Reserve No. 1., the North Bay Indian Reserve No. 5 and part of the Okanagan Indian Reserve No. 1.
