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Friday, September 18, 2015
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OURFUTURE
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Canadian voters are on the verge of making a decision that will shape the future of Canada for years to come.
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.
1 Create good jobs by investing in infrastructure while interest rates are low.
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Cut taxes for the middle class and raise them for the wealthiest 1%.
Invest in affordable housing and child care to help those working hard to join the middle class.
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THECANDIDATES CHILLIWACK HOPE
CHILLIWACK HOPE
Thomas Cheney
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
Incumbent: No
Liberal
Conservative
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
TH OM PS ON NICOLA
Incumbent: No R
RI
VE R
FRASE
IH AL LA
HARRISON LAKE
STAVE LAKE
LANGUAGES:
$80,000 TO $124,00
ENGLISH: 88%
$50,000 TO $79,000
CH EH AL IS VE RI
R
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SKOWKALE
A L LO
CH I L LI WA CK — H O P E
1
3
SKA
GIT
RI V
DUTCH: 2%
ER
CHILLIWACK
TZEACHTEN 13
CHILL
ABBOTSFORD SOOWAHLIE 14 CULTUS LAKE
UPPER SUMAS 6
IWA CK
RIV E
R
FRENCH: 1.6%
FRASER VALLEY E
CHILLIWACK LAKE
ABBOTSFORD
1996
2001
2006
2016*
2011
$30,000 TO $49,000
CENSUS YEARS
COUNTINGHEADS BC STATS (*PROJECTED)
68,746
MEDIAN AGE IN COMMUNITY TOTAL NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS
72,25
79,30
16K 50K
87,63
15,055
94,70
$5,000 TO $29,00
37,500
*INDIVIDUALS
FAMILYINCOME
MARRIED COUPLES WITH CHILDREN
MED. AVRG.
RESIDENTS AGED 15 TO 64
46%
2013
99.5
2011 ELECTION RESULTS CHILLIWACK - FRASER CANYON
POPULATION
39.8 10K
920
R
EEK
PEOPLESTATS
KWAWKWAWAPILT 6
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RIV
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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.
SKWAH 4
FRASER VALLEY G
$125,000 & OVER
FRASER VALLEY D
CHEAM 1
NO
YES
54%
THIS WEB POLL REFLECTS OPINIONS OF SITE VISITORS WHO VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATE. RESULTS MAY NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF THE PUBLIC AS A WHOLE.
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FRASER
SUM
KENT
RH O P E
Incumbent: No
NDP
SILVE
Seonaigh MacPherson
GERMAN: 3.2%
OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN H
F R A S E R VA L L E Y HARRISON HOT SPRINGS
TOTAL CRIMINAL CODE VIOLATIONS
5,955
11,505
OK AN AG AN -S I MI L KA M EE N
OTHELLO ROAD
2014
98.7
*2010
SOURCE: STATS CANADA
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
GREEN LIBERAL NDP CONSERVATIVE VOTER TURN OUT
CENTRAL OKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN—NICOL
FRASER VALLEY B
2013
EARNINGLEVELS
HOPE
CHEHALIS 5
5.9%
SPOKENWORD
CO
5
MISSION—MATSQUI—FRASER CANYON
WILL YOU VOTE FOR SAME PARTY YOU VOTED FOR IN THE LAST FEDERAL ELECTION?
2012
97.1 INCIDENTS (INCLUDING PROPERTY, VIOLENT AND OTHER CRIMES) REPORTED PER 1,000 POPULATION
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FRASER VALLEY C
FRASER VALLEY F
6.8%
2012
FLEUVE
PI TT MA ME P L AD E O RID W GES—
Lifetime resident of Chilliwack, actor and musician.
2011
Incumbent: Yes
FRASER VALLEY A
Libertarian
7.5%
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
WEASKED
UNEMPLOYMENT
Dorothy-Jean O’Donnell
Incumbent: No
Green Party
CRIMERATES
JOBS
*DECLARED AS OF SEPT. 14
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.”
$26,035 $34,587
59% 57% 26% 11% 5.5%
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Create good jobs by investing in infrastructure while interest rates are low.
Cut taxes for the middle class and raise them for the wealthiest 1%.
Invest in affordable housing and child care to help those working hard to join the middle class.
SOCIAL VOICES
TELL US THE ONE THING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MP FOR CHILLIWACK-HOPE ACCOMPLISH IF ELECTED ON OCT. 19. MARLENE NOBLE I would like to see a government that thought a little about the seniors living on a fixed income. Most have worked hard for Canada and are now treated like second-class citizens.
MARC GREIDANUS I would like to see our MP fight to restore the environmental protection of our lakes and rivers that was dismantled under the Conservative government.
JULIE NICHOLLS Homelessness.
WAYNE FROESE Protect our Water: all the things that go into protecting and restoring wild salmon in the Fraser and Vedder; protect our aquifer from a risky pipeline running directly over it: re-route it (or reject it); a fully-funded Water Sustainability Act to monitor and preserve our water resources (so corporations don’t extract and pollute while we go without)
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THECANDIDATES CRIMERATES 5190 CANADA 7454 BRITISH COLUMBIA 1092 CANADA 1262 BRITISH COLUMBIA 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
Leader, Liberal Party of Canada
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
25.7% from 2008
CONSERVATIVE
Leader, Green Party of Canada
CANADA
NDP LIBERAL
VOTER TURN OUT
2009
2010
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.
166 SEATS
103 SEATS
34 SEATS
4 SEATS
30.8%
2001 - 2012
+1.4 BILLION -2.0 BILLION -5.2 BILLION
29.3%
2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
2011
2012
$68,860
$68,410
$69,860
$72,240
$74,540
$28,920
$28,840
$29,250
$30,180
$31,320
BRITISH COLUMBIA
2011
8.7%
2011
7.5%
2012
7.1%
2012
7.1%
2013
6.4%
2013
7.1%
2014
6.5%
2014
6.8%
2015
6.8%
2015
WEALTH GAP SOURCE: STATS CANADA
SHARE OF WEALTH OWNED BY WEALTHIEST 10%
CANADA
47.9%
B.C.
56.2%
SHARE OF WEALTH OWNED BY POOREST 50%
CANADA
5.5%
B.C.
3.1%
IMPORTS EXPORTS
34.2%
2014 - 2015
SHELTER + FOOD
2013 - 2014
SOURCE: 2015 BUDGET
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
$516 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
2015 - 2016
GDP GROWTH COMPARISIONS
EXPORTS 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
SOURCE: STATS CANADA. SPENDING PER WEEK.
+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
MEDICAL MARIJUANA 2015 ESTIMATED, SOURCE: HEALTH CANADA
61.4% 39.6% 30.6% 18.9% 6.0%
32.3% 31.2%
HOUSEHOLD SPENDING
SOURCE: 2015 BUDGET
SOURCE: STATS CANADA
7.7%
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.
VOTER TURNOUT
+12.2%
2001 - 2012
2008
BUDGET DEFICIT/SURPLUS
ACTUAL AND PROJECTED SOURCE: 2015 BUDGET
CANADIAN POPULATION
-26.3%
SOURCE: STATS CANADA. FROM FEBRUARY OF EACH YEAR.
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.
And the Green Party won its first-ever seat in Ottawa, with party leader Elizabeth May taking her riding in Saanich– Gulf Islands.
18.14% from 2008
CRIME RATES
UNEMPLOYMENTRATE
Elizabeth May
2011
Total violent rate down
FAMILYINCOME INDIVIDUALINCOME
Leader, Bloc Quebecois
ELECTION RESULTS
22.8% 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
2001 - 2012
DEBT-TO-GDP RATIO
SOURCE: STATS CANADA
Gilles Duceppe Age: 67
+21.8%
21.7% from 2008
INCOMESTATS
FEDERAL DEBT$692 BILLION
POLICE OFFICERS
2013, INCIDENTS PER 100,000 POPULATION. SOURCE: STATS CANADA
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
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
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TOP 50 COUNTRIES 2011 2012 2013
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2013 VS 2012
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25,317 20,469 10,350
49% REDUCTION
$310
GRAND TOTAL Equivalent $78,414 per household per year.
$1508
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