Kitchener-Waterloo NDP

The Kitchener-Conestoga NDP will hold their Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, October 29, 7:00 pm at their election campaign office at 37 King St. W., Kitchener.

Guest Speakers include Peter Tabuns, Andrea Horwath and Gilles Bisson

Peter Tabuns, 57, long-time community activist, has been a City Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Toronto, former head of Greenpeace Canada and is currently MPP for Toronto Danforth and energy and environment critic. Peter has declared himself as a candidate for the Ontario New Democratic Party leadership in that he will build a "new energy economy" in Ontario. As leader, he said his top priorities would be creating jobs and dealing with the environmental crisis.

Andrea Horvath, 45, has been a Community Development Co-ordinator, Hamilton City Councillor for seven years and since 2004 the NDP MPP for Hamilton Centre. Her focus has been on health care, race relations, sustainable development, elimination of poverty, workplace violence and protection of workers’ pensions and benefits. Andrea is considered a leading candidate for the Ontario New Democratic Party leadership, but has not yet declared herself as a candidate.

Gilles Bisson currently serves as the MPP for Timmins-James Bay and is critic for Northern Development & Mines, Aboriginal Affairs, Francophone Affairs, and Natural Resources. In the Rae Government he served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Northern Development and Mines and the Minister of Francophone Affairs. He was the Premier's appointee on the Ontario Government's Cabinet Committee on the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. Job creation and job security are key among his concerns. He is known as a strong and effective advocate for Northern Ontario and is recognized as a hard working local MPP. Prior to going to
Queen's Park, Gilles co-ordinated a workplace literacy program for the Ontario Federation of Labour. Prior to that he played a key role with the Steelworkers in the "Lung Cancer Amongst Coal Miners" project that led to the Workers Compensation Board (WCB) recognizing lung cancer as an industrial disease.