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OCTOBER 19
When they go to the polls on October 19, many factors will influence who they choose to lead the country. From the economy to foreign policy, infrastructure to the environment, this is a multi-issue election. This special supplement presents local and national statistics, highlighting data about economic, health and standard of living indicators – information to be considered when you make your decision on election day.
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VOTE GREEN
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Vote Arthur Green Mission/Matsqui/Fraser Canyon
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THECANDIDATES CHILLIWACK HOPE
*DECLARED AS OF SEPT. 14
CHILLIWACK HOPE
Thomas Cheney Green Party
Dorothy-Jean O’Donnell
Incumbent: No
Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
Incumbent: No
Currently working on a Master’s degree in Environ-mental Studies, specializing in Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Northern British Columbia. Holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and a minor in Economics from UNBC.
O’Donnell is a lawyer and political activist who has campaigned on the idea of changing the way voters are represented by their MPs. Instead of following party lines, she has argued voters should reach consensus on an issue in their riding, then instruct their MP how to vote.
Louis De Jaeger
Mark Strahl
Liberal
Incumbent: No
Owner of Bravo Restaurant in Chilliwack. Board member with the Downtown BIA Board Member, Sto:lo Community Futures Member, Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce Member, The Chilliwack Mt. Cheam Rotary Club
Chair of the BC/Yukon Conservative Caucus since 2012. Current parliamentary secretary to the minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Norther Development. Former member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence, 2011 to 2013.
Alexander Johnson
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Incumbent: No
Lifetime resident of Chilliwack, actor and musician.
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Libertarian
Incumbent: Yes
Conservative
STAVE LAKE
ENGLISH: 88%
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Professor and department head of adult education at the University of the Fraser Valley. Author of two books: Education and Sustainablity, and Human Rights Education for Families. List of awards includes a Government of Canada award for research on sustainability.
PEOPLESTATS POPULATION HOPE
SKOWKALE
R EEK
SKWAH 4
A L LO
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CHEAM 1
FRASER VALLEY G
DUTCH: 2%
FRASER VALLEY D
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FRASER
KWAWKWAWAPILT 6
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FRASER VALLEY F
Incumbent: No
RH O P E
NDP
HARRISON HOT SPRINGS
SILVE
Seonaigh MacPherson
GERMAN: 3.2%
OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN H
F R A S E R VA L L E Y
CHEHALIS 5
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CHILLIWACK
FRENCH: 1.6%
TZEACHTEN 13
CHILL
ABBOTSFORD SOOWAHLIE 14 CULTUS LAKE
UPPER SUMAS 6
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FRASER VALLEY E
CHILLIWACK LAKE
ABBOTSFORD
2001
2006
2011
2016*
6,184
6,185
5,969
7,540
CENSUS YEARS
COUNTINGHEADS BC STATS (*PROJECTED)
PERCENTILE - HOPE
50.2 15.7
MEDIAN AGE IN COMMUNITY TOTAL NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS
30.6 62.3
MARRIED COUPLES WITH CHILDREN RESIDENTS AGED 15 TO 64
SOURCE: STATS CANADA
1 Create good jobs by investing in infrastructure while interest rates are low.
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VOTE GREEN
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WEASKED
CRIMERATES
JOBS
CHILLIWACK HOPE
WILL YOU VOTE FOR SAME PARTY YOU VOTED FOR IN THE LAST FEDERAL ELECTION?
UNEMPLOYMENT
7.5%
2012
THIS WEB POLL IS INFORMAL, NOT SCIENTIFIC. IT REFLECTS OPINIONS OF SITE VISITORS WHO VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATE. RESULTS MAY NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF THE PUBLIC AS A WHOLE. BLACK PRESS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATISTICAL ACCURACY OF OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE.
2011
6.8% 2013
5.9% 2014
2012
98.7
97.1 TOTAL CRIMINAL CODE VIOLATIONS
YES
CHILLIWACK HOPE
GREEN LIBERAL NDP CONSERVATIVE VOTER TURN OUT
2011 ELECTION RESULTS
44%
2013
INCIDENTS (INCLUDING PROPERTY, VIOLENT AND OTHER CRIMES) REPORTED PER 1,000 POPULATION
99.5
NO
56%
THECANDIDATES
MISSION - MATSQUI - FRASER CANYON RIDING Brad Vis
Conservative
Brad Vis has previously worked as a communications advisor to Abbotsford MP Ed Fast, and most recently has spent a year working for an agri-business developer. Vis lives in Abbotsford with his wife Kathleen.
Dennis Adamson
In 2011 long-time Chilliwack Conservative Party incumbent Chuck Strahl chose not to seek re-election. In his place, Mark Stahl earned the party nomination and continued the Conservative domination of the riding. He easily beat NDP candidate Gwen O’Mahony (who later was elected MLA for Chilliwack-Hope in a byelection), as well as former Chilliwack city councillor, Diane Janzen, who ran as a Liberal. The riding has since been redrawn and is now “Chilliwack-Hope.”
NDP
Dennis Adamson has worked as the Electoral Area B director for the Fraser Valley Regional District since 2008. He lives in Yale, serves on the board of a local charity aiming to help seniors live independently, and is married with two daughters.
Jati Sidhu
Liberal
Jati Sidhu, an Abbotsford resident, currently runs a business development company. He holds a BA in political science and economics, and has served on the Abbotsford Police Board, the UFV Board of Governors, and the board of the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce.
Art Green
Green
Art Green works as a motion picture technician and volunteers with the Hope Ratepayers’ Association and the Hope and Area Transition Society. He has studied accounting and attended a political training institute at UBC. Green is married and has three stepchildren.
Wyatt Scott
59% 57% 26% 11% 5.5%
2
iddle class and raise wealthiest 1%.
Independent
Wyatt Scott is an entrepreneur in Mission, BC, with a small gemstone finishing company. He volunteers with the Mission Sunrise Rotary Club, the Mission Folk Fest, and the Mission Friendship Center. Scott is married and has a son.
3 Invest in affordable housing and child care to help those working hard to join the middle class.
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CRIMERATES THECANDIDATES CANADA 5190 BRITISH COLUMBIA 7454 CANADA 1092 BRITISH COLUMBIA 1262
POLICE OFFICERS
2013, INCIDENTS PER 100,000 POPULATION. SOURCE: STATS CANADA
Stephen Harper Age: 56
Total crime rate down
Prime Minister – Leader, Conservative Party of Canada
Stephen Harper has been the Prime Minister of Canada since 2006 and the leader of the Conservative Party since 2004. Born in Toronto, Harper moved to Alberta after high school – first to Edmonton, then to study economics at the University of Calgary. He has been MP of Calgary Southwest since 2002, originally with the Canadian Alliance party, and became the Leader of the Opposition in that year’s election.
Total crime rate down
Justin Trudeau Age:43
Born in Ottawa while his father, Pierre Trudeau, was Prime Minister of Canada, Justin was raised in Montreal and is a graduate of both McGill University and UBC. Before entering politics, he worked as a French and math teacher in Vancouver. He won the riding of Papineau (Quebec) as a Liberal MP in 2008 – a position he still holds. He was named leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, succeeding Bob Rae.
Thomas Mulcair Age: 60
Leader, New Democratic Party
Mulcair was born in Ottawa in 1954 and raised in Quebec – in Hull and Laval – and graduated from Montreal’s McGill University in 1977. Mulcair was elected leader of the NDP in 2012, succeeding the late Jack Layton as the head of Canada’s Official Opposition. Mulcair has been the MP for Outremont (Quebec) since 2007.
Total violent rate down
FAMILYINCOME INDIVIDUALINCOME
2001 - 2012
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
$68,860
$68,410
$69,860
$72,240
$74,540
$28,920
$28,840
$29,250
$30,180
$31,320
SOURCE: STATS CANADA. FROM FEBRUARY OF EACH YEAR.
CONSERVATIVE
Leader, Green Party of Canada
CANADA
NDP
Elizabeth May is the leader of the Green Party and the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands in B.C. May became just the party’s second-ever Member of Parliament, winning her riding in the 2011 federal election (even though she was not invited to that year’s national TV debates). She won the Green Party’s leadership in 2006, replacing Jim Harris.
LIBERAL
VOTER TURN OUT
Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party won its third consecutive federal election, this time increasing its seat count to 166 to grab a majority government. The NDP, under the late Jack Layton, surged into the official opposition’s chair with 103 seats – the largest total in the party’s history. Meanwhile, the Liberal Party tumbled from 77 seats (in 2008) to just 34, and leader Michael Ignatieff left his post after the election. The Bloc Quebecois and Gilles Duceppe – who has returned to his position for 2015 – crashed from 49 seats won in 2008 to just four, losing its official party status.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
WEALTH GAP SOURCE: STATS CANADA
SHARE OF WEALTH OWNED BY WEALTHIEST 10%
7.7%
2011
8.7%
2011
7.5%
2012
7.1%
2012
CANADA
47.9%
B.C.
56.2%
7.1%
2013
6.4%
2013
7.1%
2014
6.5%
2014
6.8%
2015
6.8%
2015
GREEN BLOC QUEBÉCOIS
The 2011 federal election resulted in a major power shuffle in Ottawa – the incumbents increased their lead while others rose to prominence and relevance, and a once-dynastic party left in defeat, forced to rebuild.
And the Green Party won its first-ever seat in Ottawa, with party leader Elizabeth May taking her riding in Saanich– Gulf Islands.
SHARE OF WEALTH OWNED BY POOREST 50%
CANADA
5.5%
B.C.
3.1%
MEDICAL MARIJUANA 2015 ESTIMATED, SOURCE: HEALTH CANADA
61.4% 39.6% 30.6% 18.9% 6.0% VOTER TURNOUT
166 SEATS
103 SEATS
34 SEATS
2001 - 2012
-26.3%
UNEMPLOYMENTRATE
Elizabeth May
2011
+12.2%
SOURCE: STATS CANADA
Leader, Bloc Quebecois
ELECTION RESULTS
CANADIAN POPULATION
25.7% from 2008
MEDIAN TOTAL INCOME
The oldest leader of Canada’s major federal political parties, Duceppe is also the longest-serving leader of the five – he led the Bloc from 1997 to 2011, then re-assumed leadership this year, replacing Mario Beaulieu. Duceppe also served as MP for Laurier–Sainte Marie from 1990 to 2011. He has not yet announced which riding he’ll run for in 2015.
Age: 61
CRIME RATES
18.14% from 2008
INCOMESTATS
Gilles Duceppe Age: 67
2001 - 2012
22.8% from 2008
Total violent rate down
Leader, Liberal Party of Canada
+21.8%
21.7% from 2008
4 SEATS
3.9% 1 SEAT
NUMBER OF USERS IN CANADA AUTHORIZED BY HEALTH CANADA TO POSSESS MEDICAL MARIJUANA
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
12,829 27,778 29,888 37,884 +50,000
#HOPEVOTES #FRA
DAVOTES FEDERAL DEBT$692 BILLION DEBT-TO-GDP RATIO
BUDGET DEFICIT/SURPLUS
30.8%
+1.4 BILLION -2.0 BILLION -5.2 BILLION
29.3%
2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
IMPORTS EXPORTS
2015 - 2016
34.2%
2014 - 2015
SHELTER + FOOD
2013 - 2014
$516
GDP GROWTH COMPARISIONS
SOURCE: STATS CANADA
SOURCE: 2015 BUDGET
EXPORTS 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
GDP GROWTH JOBGROWTH
$403,966,700,000 $456,612,500,000 $463,135,100,000 $479,266,200,000 $528,794,800,000
GDP GROWTH OF G7 COUNTRIES SINCE END OF RECESSION IN 2009
$413,670,000,000 $456,044,900,000 $474,287,100,000 $486,487,400,000 $524,241,800,000
25.3%
TAXES, INSURANCE, PENSION, HEALTH + EDUCATION
$382
JOB GROWTH OF G7 COUNTRIES OVER THE RECOVERY
+15.6% +13.5% +11.6% +10.3% +9.1% +5.7% -2.3%
IMPORTS 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
SOURCE: STATS CANADA. SPENDING PER WEEK.
SOURCE: 2015 BUDGET
ACTUAL AND PROJECTED SOURCE: 2015 BUDGET
32.3% 31.2%
HOUSEHOLD SPENDING
+7.4% +8.9% +5.1% +6.5% +2.0% +1.1% +0.6%
19.8%
TRANSPORT + HOUSEHOLD OPERATIONS
$298 20.7%
RECREATION + OTHER Furnishings, clothing, reading materials, gifts, donations, misc. expenses, tobacco/alcohol, personal care, games of chance
REFUGEECLAIMANTS BY COUNTRY
CHINA
KOREA
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
POLAND
SOURCE: STATS CANADA
2012 2013
1,665
723
1,882
283
175
760
151
95
39
37
TOP 50 COUNTRIES 2011 2012 2013
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25,317 20,469 10,350
2013 VS 2012
49% REDUCTION
$310 GRAND TOTAL Equivalent $78,414 per household per year.
$1508
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