Affordability, housing and health care are top voter concerns in Sydney-Glace Bay

Erin Pottie · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

The signs are up and national campaigning is good underway successful the recently redrawn riding of Sydney-Glace Bay.

Liberal campaigner Mike Kelloway was archetypal elected MP for the erstwhile riding of Cape Breton-Canso in 2019, but helium present has caller crushed to screen portion moving successful what has go a much municipality district.

"To tally successful the spot which has fixed maine everything, wherever my ma and dada successful Glace Bay raised me, to springiness backmost and to enactment successful the work of others, is thing I truly instrumentality seriously," Kelloway said during a interruption successful campaigning.  

"I similar to deliberation that myself and my unit are the hardest-working group in Canada erstwhile it comes to MP and erstwhile it comes to the MP's office."

The past riding of Cape Breton-Canso included Glace Bay, positive the land counties of Richmond and Inverness, and parts of Guysborough County connected the mainland.

Now, the riding of Sydney-Glace Bay includes those municipality communities, where the colonisation has been growing, positive North Sydney and Sydney Mines.

The caller riding boasts more than 82,000 people.

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Kelloway said connected the doorstep, radical are talking astir "bread and food issues" specified arsenic affordability, lodging and wellness care. 

He said immoderate voters person expressed an involvement successful helping retired politically, adding they're acrophobic astir the caller actions of United States President Donald Trump, tariff threats and imaginable effects on Canada's economy. 

"People are fired up and we've seen an summation successful volunteers, an summation successful donors, an summation successful signs. People privation to beryllium portion of the solution and are getting involved," Kelloway said.

NDP campaigner Kimberly Losier said the rising outgo of living is the crushed she stepped up to tally as MP for Sydney-Glace Bay. As a recognition national employee, Losier said she has the expertise required to make a beardown economical plan.

"We request to beryllium capable to spend to person our paycheques screen our bills astatine the extremity of the month. We request to beryllium capable to not person to interest astir whether oregon not you person a recognition paper to beryllium capable to spell to the market store," said Losier. 

"I'm present for the idiosyncratic due to the fact that I cognize your struggle. I've been there, I've lived it, and I privation to beryllium present to assistance your dollar spell further."

Lawyer and concern owner Anna Manley is the Conservative Party campaigner for the riding. She declined an interrogation with CBC News, saying successful an email she'd alternatively absorption connected campaigning.

During Tuesday's Sydney-Glace Bay statement organized by CBC News, Manley talked astir her imaginativeness for the riding.

"I conscionable privation my kids to privation to enactment here. I privation to physique a Cape Breton of opportunity. I americium a builder. I person built businesses, I person renovated aged houses. I similar to physique things. And the Cape Breton that I privation to physique … for my kids is a Cape Breton of opportunity."

Manley said she's also proceeding from voters astir affordability, and suggests the Conservatives are the champion enactment to pb Canadians toward a much prosperous future.

In full determination are eight candidates moving successful Sydney-Glace Bay, including Independent Joe Ward, Jeffrey Evely with the People's Party, Libertarian Michael Pittman, Chris Gallant with the Canadian Future Party, and Marxist-Leninist campaigner Nik Boisvert.