North Island

This is Roy Hales with Cortez Currents, which you can also find at cortezcurrents.ca. Green Party candidate Benjamin Olsson kicked off a three-day tour of rural areas in North Island writing by visiting Manson's Landing on Friday, October 16th.

He did a quick tour of downtown Manson's from Marnie's Books to Rainbow Ridge and finally met with a small group of local residents in the Pioneer Room of Manson's Hall.

I asked him,

The All Candidates Forum is tonight at the time mark 7 until 9, and it's free for anyone to attend.

I believe they will live stream that as well.

Tomorrow, I plan on going up to the North Island, so I'll be up in the Triport area, and I also plan to visit Sointoula and Alert Bay.

I'll be there for the next two days meeting people, listening to concerns, ideas.

I'm really about trying to find solutions that work for our communities and presenting the alternative voice of the Greens.

... races to be watching.

North Island's interesting.

That was pretty close last time too.

Mm-hmm.

This is Roy Hales with Cortez Currents, which you can also find at cortezcurrents.ca. Benjamin Olson, a social worker from Campbell River, is the Green Party candidate for North Island.

I just really am proud to fly the green banner and to have this opportunity to run as a candidate.

I thought maybe somebody else might step up and decide to let their name stand.

But of course, this election was called last minute as well.

A lot of decisions were being made on the fly.

The voters of North Island voted.

deserve and should have the

right to choose another party and another, have another choice in this coming election.

Why only two? W- Wasn't there eight that we were gonna stand down in earlier? Now, I don't wanna suggest anybody's having problems getting candidates, but I don't know, if you're giving them eight free ridings and suddenly they do something you don't like, you, "Okay, fine, we're gonna take two of those back." What about the other six? Can you not find people in the other six

... is the riding of North Island, which is a seat currently held by Anna Kindi, and the second one is the riding of Kelowna-Centre, currently held by Christina Loewen.

We have excellent candidates ready to go in both these ridings, and we believe they will be victorious.

The BC Conservative Party needs to learn to respect the goodwill of the citizens of British Columbia.