The 2025 federal candidates in brief: Kenora—Kiiwetinoong riding

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· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 12:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

The Kenora—Kiiwetinoong riding covers an country of astir 255,000 quadrate kilometres, and has a colonisation of implicit 60,000.

The riding includes Dryden, Kenora, Red Lake, Sioux Lookout, Ear Falls, Ignace, Machin, Pickle Lake and Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls.

Many First Nations autumn wrong this riding, including Bearskin Lake, Cat Lake, Deer Lake, Eagle Lake, Kasabonika Lake, Kee-Way-Win, Kingfisher Lake No. 1, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Osnaburgh, Wabaseemoong, Wapekeka No. 2, Wawakapewin and Wunnumin Lake No. 1. 

• First Nations leaders, candidates scope retired to mobilize Indigenous voters

CBC reached retired to each the national candidates to petition summaries of cardinal predetermination issues arsenic identified by northwestern Ontario voters. The candidates and their responses are listed successful alphabetical bid by surname are arsenic follows:

Kelvin Boucher-Chicago, Independent 

Healthcare, including but not constricted to primary care, intelligence wellness and addictions:

• "Better ratio and improved authorities and bureaucracy accountability."

Cost of living, including but not constricted to housing affordability and taxes:

• "Better ratio and improved authorities and bureaucracy accountability."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Cut medication and usage those funds for lodging that really fits the realities of those that need."

First Nations issues, including but not constricted to infrastructure and mental health:

• "Better ratio and improved authorities and bureaucracy accountability."

US-Canada relations, including but not constricted to tariffs:  

• "Canada indispensable go much self-sufficient to basal connected its ain feet." 

Tania Cameron, NDP

Healthcare, including but not constricted to primary care, intelligence wellness and addictions:

• "Train doctors from north, put successful determination aesculapian schools."
• "Universal intelligence healthcare, nationalist pharmacare."
• "Invest successful harm reduction, treatment."

Cost of living, including but not constricted to housing affordability and taxes:

• "Eliminate GST connected groceries, diapers, kids' clothes."
• "Expand Northern Resident Deduction, betterment Nutrition North."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Build 3 cardinal homes by 2030."
• "Permanent $16 cardinal lodging strategy."

First Nations issues, including but not constricted to infrastructure and mental health:

• "Respect free, prior, informed consent."
• "Implement TRC [Truth and Reconciliation] recommendations."
• "Fix Jordan's Principle."

US-Canada relations, including but not constricted to tariffs:  

• "Build Canadian, Buy Canadian strategy."
• "Establish Jobs War Room."

Bryce Desjarlais, PPC

Healthcare, including but not constricted to primary care, intelligence wellness and addictions:

• "Pause migration to easiness strain."
• "Support community-led solutions for addiction, homelessness, and intelligence health."
• "Make healthcare grooming much accessible."

Cost of living, including but not constricted to housing affordability and taxes:

• "Pause migration to relieve lodging pressure."
• "Cut reddish portion to physique faster."
• "Eliminate c taxes and equilibrium the fund to trim costs."

Housing and Homelessness:

No effect provided by candidate. 

First Nations issues, including but not constricted to infrastructure and mental health:

• "Partner done community-led, culturally respectful solutions for reconciliation, health, and housing."

US-Canada relations, including but not constricted to tariffs:  

• "Avoid tariffs, enactment just trade, little firm taxes, and pull jobs and investment."

Charles Fox, Liberal

Healthcare, including but not constricted to primary care, intelligence wellness and addictions:

• "Increase backing to provinces/territories to support and modernize nationalist wellness attraction system."

Cost of living, including but not constricted to housing affordability and taxes:

• "Cut taxes for the mediate class."
• "Change EI [employment insurance] strategy truthful workers get the supports they request faster."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Government to enactment arsenic developer for affordable housing."
• "Eliminate GST for archetypal clip location buyers."

First Nations issues, including but not constricted to infrastructure and mental health:

• "Strengthen Indigenous jurisdiction implicit kid welfare."
• "Culturally based intelligence wellness programs including supporting infrastructure."

US-Canada relations, including but not constricted to tariffs:  

• "Strategically respond to U.S. tariffs."
• "Expand web of trading partners."

Jon Hobbs, Green

Healthcare, including but not constricted to primary care, intelligence wellness and addictions:

• "Strengthening healthcare truthful each Canadian has entree to superior care, intelligence health, dental care, pharmacare."
• "Address healthcare idiosyncratic shortages."

Cost of living, including but not constricted to housing affordability and taxes:

• "Eliminate income taxes for Canadians with incomes nether $40,000."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Create Crown corp to physique affordable and rental housing."
• "Incentivize caller lodging with a assortment of ownership models."
• "Built to sustainable standing systems."

First Nations issues, including but not constricted to infrastructure and mental health:

• "Commitment to reconciliation, Indigenous sovereignty."

US-Canada relations, including but not constricted to tariffs:  

• "Fight tariffs, summation sovereignty, physique Canadian greenish economy."

Eric Melillo, Conservative

Did not supply responses to questions by deadline.