Candiate Event Story

During the week before the election, I had called the Ontario NDP office in Brantford. I called and asked for a paid staff member or volunteer. I got to talk to a gentlemen named Terry Coleman. As I proceeded to ask him questions, he told me things about their campaign such as, their main goals and the things that they want to fix. He went on to tell me that they are pushing locally more than anything, to perhaps keep things closer to home. Terry Coleman made let me know that their campaign has a policy that covers every issue, mainly for employment rights. Terry informed me that a new commissioner is needed to make new recommendations, and that they also want to raise minimum wage to ten dollars an hour. Terry stated that in a strategic sense, the government doesn’t secure manufacturing jobs, as the province loses jobs at a rate of about 10,000 a month. Terry also says that this is irresponsible for the government to not have a strategy. He feels that if we have a strategy, and a commissioner, would help improver the work force. In British Columbia, they put forth the plan that the NDP’s wish to, and it got them 10,000 jobs. The phone call was brief, as it seemed that he didn’t have a whole lot to say. The conversation was based more around the one policy that they wanted to enforce which was based around the employment area. At the end of the interview, I thanked him and asked him if he was okay with this information being displayed in an internet blog, which he did not have a problem with.