The 2025 federal candidates in brief: Thunder Bay—Rainy River riding

Michelle Allan · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 3:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Thunder Bay—Rainy River is commonly referred to arsenic the "south broadside riding" wrong Thunder Bay arsenic it includes the portion of the metropolis southbound of Highway 11/17 and the Harbour Expressway but it besides stretches westbound to Lake of the Woods, and northbound to Brightsand River provincial parkland covering an country of astir 30,000 square kilometres and a colonisation of implicit 80,000.

It besides includes Atikokan, Fort Frances, Rainy River, Neebing, Oliver Paipoonge, Alberton, Chapple, Conmee, Dawson, Emo, Gillies, La Vallee, Lake of the Woods, Morley, O'Connor and the Unorganized Area of Rainy River.

Several First Nations autumn wrong Thunder Bay—Rainy River, including Fort William First Nation, Big Grassy River, Couchiching, Lac des Mille Lacs No. 22A1, and Seine River No. 23A. 

• Thunder Bay's national predetermination candidates stock apical issues they're proceeding astir connected run trail

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:

Eric Arner, Green

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

• "Ontario is suffering from intentional underfunding by the Ford authorities successful an effort to propulsion backstage care. Green enactment would enforce the Canada Health Act to guarantee national funds are spent lone connected nationalist care." 

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

• "Dramatic income taxation simplification for those earning little than $100 000."
• "National minimum wage scale calculated regionally based connected indispensable expenses."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Crown Corporation dedicated to gathering affordable housing."
• "Housing-first strategy provides lodging with wraparound services to assistance radical modulation from impermanent to permanently housed." 

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

•  "Implement each 94 Calls to Action from Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission."

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

•  Did not supply a response

Brendan Hyatt, Conservative

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

• "Introduce the Blue Seal Program to fast-track foreign-trained doctors and nurses."

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

• "Axe the c tax."
• "Cut the lowest income taxation bracket to 12.5%."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Remove HST on new homes up to $1.3 million."
• "Sell disconnected 6000 national buildings to physique caller homes."

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

• "Establish the Canadian Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, led by Indigenous radical to connection indebtedness guarantees for Indigenous communities."

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

• "Removing interprovincial commercialized barriers."
• "Strengthen infrastructure and vigor information with the Canada First Energy Corridor."

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Marcus Powlowski, Liberal

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

• "Recruiting much doctors, crab attraction funding, improving enactment for intelligence wellness and addictions."
• "Protecting healthcare from cuts."

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

• "Lowering surviving costs done taxation cuts, childcare, affordable housing."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Doubling lodging construction, gathering co-op housing, investing successful transitional housing."

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

• "Backing Indigenous self-determination."
• "Access to cleanable water, healthcare."

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

• "Fighting tariffs and reinvesting tariff gross successful Canadian workers."

Sabrina Ree, PPC

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

• "[Prioritizing] patient-centered healthcare, fiscal responsibility and innovation."

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

• "[Cutting] c and national taxes, redeeming farmers $150,000 yearly, and deregulate zoning for affordable housing."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Pause immigration, region GST connected construction, and streamline onshore usage approvals."

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

• "Support First Nations infrastructure done backstage investment, market-driven intelligence wellness solutions, and self-governance."

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

• "[Opposing] U.S. tariffs, champions escaped speech, removes commercialized barriers and ensures pipeline access."

Yuk-Sem Won, NDP

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

• "Continue to grow cosmopolitan care—Dentalcare and pharmacare; ideate getting intelligence healthcare with your wellness paper not a recognition card!"
• "To guarantee due backing and staffing for hospitals, agelong word attraction and paramedic."

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

• "Affordable: headdress rent, market hikes, and marque the affluent wage their share."

Housing and Homelessness:

• "Housing is simply a right—build non-profit, sustainable, affordable homes."

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

• "Reconciliation—real funding, existent consent, existent partnerships."

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

• "Defend jobs, hole EI, and physique a resilient, made-in-Canada economy."

CBC News has compiled a database of election promises made by Canada's large parties. More accusation astir section candidates successful northwestern Ontario can beryllium recovered here.