With a fourth wave of Covid brewing in the background, Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing NDP candidate Carol Hughes says she is ready to campaign safely, but would have preferred to wait until the pandemic was better controlled before asking Canadians to participate in a federal election.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn many ways the election is unnecessary,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cNew Democrats were more than clear with the government that we would continue to work with them to help Canadians through the pandemic.\u00a0 Instead, the Liberals are more concerned with their political fortunes and stopping committees that are investigating ethical issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite concerns about campaigning in the pandemic, Hughes says New Democrats are offering voters a clear choice and points to the work the party did in the last parliament that helped support households and businesses through the worst of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a minority parliament, and we used our leverage to improve programs like the CERB and Wage Subsidy (CEWS),\u201d said Hughes. \u201cThe other opposition parties were more concerned with themselves and have nothing to point to as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the help New Democrats were able to secure for everyday Canadians, Hughes says there is a mountain of work ahead to make sure that the pandemic costs aren\u2019t placed on working Canadians shoulders.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s time for the ultra-wealthy and pandemic profiteers to pay their fair share,\u201d said Hughes.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve also identified dozens of profitable companies that took the wage subsidy and then handed out executive bonuses.\u00a0 It reminds us of the mistakes that Conservatives made with banks and large corporations in the economic collapse of 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With a fourth wave of Covid brewing in the background, Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing NDP candidate Carol Hughes says she is ready to campaign safely, but would have preferred to wait until the pandemic was better controlled before asking Canadians to participate in a federal election. \u201cIn many ways the election is unnecessary,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cNew Democrats were …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 20:59:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46812,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811\/revisions\/46812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}