Île-des-Chênes resident Erin McGee has had a busy year campaigning for the New Democratic Party. The NDP candidate for Provencher wrapped up her provincial campaign for La Verendrye on September 10 and began campaigning for the federal party the very next day, when the election was called.
McGee, President of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union Local 342, has served in that union position for over a decade. She is an administrative support worker for the Manitoba Nurses Union as well.
The New Democratic Party of Canada under the leadership of Jagmeet Singh, who was selected to lead the party in 2017, has committed to strengthening and expanding public healthcare in Canada. If elected, the party would implement a publicly funded national pharmacare program.
They have also promised various anti-poverty measures, and would invest significantly in the construction of new housing stock, creating what they estimate to be an additional 500,000 housing units across Canada.
Also proposed by the NDP is a climate-change-oriented economic action plan that targets job creation and emphasizes the transition “to a clean energy, carbon-free economy.”
