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Municipal Election Candidates - Edmonton

AUPE's Committee on Political Action sent surveys to municipal candidates across the province. Read their responses and the grade COPA gave them below!

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Responses from Candidates for MayorResponses from Candidates for CouncilResponses from Candidates for Public and Catholic School Board

What we asked candidates

These are the questions we sent candidates for Mayor and Council

  1. Will you oppose privatization of municipal services and infrastructure, including Public-Private-Partnerships aka P3s? Will you support bringing previously privatized services in-house?
  2. Will you support your employees and your community by ensuring the municipality employs staff with living wages, full-time hours where desired, job security, and collective bargaining rights?
  3. Will you oppose attempts from the provincial government to legislate against municipal staff including cuts to the Local Authorities Pension Plan, or restrictions on their right to strike?
  4. How do you propose your municipality deal with funding shortfalls, cuts, and downloading of responsibilities from federal and provincial governments? Do you favour spending cuts over tax increases?
  5. Do you support measures such as mask mandates, vaccine “passports”, and vaccine mandates for staff to limit and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in your municipality?
  6. Do you support measures to reduce municipal reliance on services fees and fares, such as eliminating transit fares?

These are the questions we sent candidates for Public and Catholic School Board

  1. Do you agree with calls to scrap the draft curriculum and start over to develop a curriculum that is accurate in capturing Alberta’s colonial history, diverse present, and modernized to reflect the world we live in?
  2. Do you believe the current education funding formula is sufficient for your district? If not, how will you work to convince the province to provide sustainable and adequate funding?
  3. Will you oppose privatization of school services and infrastructure, including Public-Private-Partnerships aka P3s? Will you support bringing previously privatized services in-house?
  4. Will you support your employees and your community by ensuring the school board employs staff with living wages, full-time hours where desired, job security, and collective bargaining rights? 
  5. Will you oppose attempts from the provincial government to legislate against school staff including cuts to the Local Authorities Pension Plan, or restrictions on their right to strike?
  6. Do you support measures such as mask mandates, and vaccine mandates for staff to limit and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in your schools?

Responses from Candidates for Mayor

Amarjeet Sohi

  1. F
  2. F
  3. F
  4. C+
  5. B
  6. D

Read Sohi's full response here and additional info from COPA here.

Mike Nickel

  1. F
  2. F
  3. F
  4. F
  5. F
  6. D

Nickel did not actually respond to our survey, but had enough information on his website for COPA to grade his platform nonetheless.

Rick Comrie

  1. D
  2. D
  3. D
  4. D
  5. C
  6. D

Read Comrie's full response here. 

Diana Steele

  1. C
  2. C
  3. C
  4. D 
  5. C
  6. D

Read Steele's full response here.

Unfortunately, the other candidates for mayor did not respond to our survey and there was not enough public information about their platforms to grade them on the issues that matter to AUPE members.

Responses from Candidates for Council

Ward Ariniq

Ali Haymour

  1. B
  2. C
  3. B
  4. D
  5. D
  6. B

Read Haymour's full response here. No other candidates in Ward Arniq responded.

Ward Dene

Andy Andrzej Gudanowski

  1. B
  2. C
  3. B
  4. D
  5. D
  6. B

Read Gudanowski's full response here. No other candidates in Ward Dene responded.

Ward Ipiihkoohkanipiaohtsi

Glynnis Lieb

  1. B
  2. C
  3. B
  4. B+
  5. B
  6. A

Read Lieb's full response here.

Jon Morgan

  1. B+
  2. B
  3. B
  4. C
  5. B
  6. B

Read Morgan's full response here.

Ward Karhiio

Sana Kakar

  1. C
  2. C
  3. C
  4. B
  5. C
  6. C

Read Kakar's full response here.

Tom Shaw

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. C
  5. D
  6. C

Read Shaw's full response here.

Keren Tang

  1. D
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read Tang's full response here.

Shamair Turner

  1. C
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. C
  6. C

Read Turner's full response here.

Ward Metis

Cori Longo

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read Longo's full response here.

Caroline Matthews

  1. B
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D
  5. F
  6. D

Read Matthews' full response here.

Liz John-West

  1. D
  2. C
  3. C
  4. B
  5. C
  6. D

Read John-West's full response here.

Ward Nakota Isga

Andrew Knack

  1. F
  2. C
  3. C
  4. D
  5. C
  6. D

Read Knack's full response here. No other candidates in Ward Nakota Isga responded.

Ward O-day'min

Gino Akbari

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. A
  6. B

Read Akbari's full response here.

Adrian Bruff

  1. C
  2. C
  3. C
  4. B
  5. C
  6. C

Read Bruff's full response here.

Mohammed Migdaddy

  1. C
  2. C
  3. C
  4. C
  5. C
  6. C

Read Migdaddy's full response here.

Joshua Wolchansky

  1. D
  2. A
  3. B
  4. A
  5. A
  6. A

Read Wolchansky's full response here.

Ward Papastew

Susan Field

  1. D
  2. B
  3. C
  4. F
  5. B
  6. B

Read Field's full response here.

Haruun J. Ali

  1. A
  2. C
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. A

Read Ali's full response here.

Kirsten Goa

  1. D
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B+
  5. C
  6. B

Read Goa's full response here.

Michael Janz

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. D+
  5. B
  6. B

Read Janz's full response here.

Ward Pihesiwin

Guiscela Perez Arellano

  1. D
  2. C
  3. C
  4. C
  5. C
  6. C

Read Arellano's full response here. No other candidates for Ward Pihesiwin responsded.

Ward Sipiwiyiniwak

Giselle General

  1. C
  2. C
  3. B
  4. B
  5. C
  6. B

Read General's full responses here.

Scott Hayes

  1. C
  2. C
  3. C
  4. C
  5. C
  6. C

Read Hayes' full responses here.

Daniel Heikkinen

  1. C
  2. C
  3. D
  4. D
  5. D
  6. D

Read Heikkinen's full responses here.

Ward Sspomitapi

Jo-Anne Wright

  1. C+
  2. C+
  3. C+
  4. D
  5. B
  6. B

Read Wright's full response here.

Mohinda Banga

  1. D
  2. C
  3. C
  4. D-
  5. C
  6. F

Read Banga's full response here.

Rashpal Sehmby

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B+
  4. B
  5. B
  6. C

Read Sehmby's full response here.

Harman Sing Kandola

  1. C
  2. C-
  3. D+
  4. B-
  5. C
  6. C

Read Kandola's full response here.

Ward Tastawiyiniwak

Ali Ahmed

  1. B
  2. D
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. D

Read Ahmed's full response here.

Cody Bondarchuk

  1. B
  2. B+
  3. B
  4. A
  5. B
  6. B+

Read Bondarchuk's full response here.

Responses from Candidates for Public and Catholic School Board

Public School Board

Ward A

Belen Samuel

  1. B
  2. B
  3. A
  4. A
  5. A
  6. A

Read Samuel's full response here.

Sherri O'Keefe

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read O'Keefe's full response here.

Sheeraz Rahman

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. A

Read Rahman's full response here.

Ward B

Keltie Marshall

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B+
  4. D
  5. B
  6. B

Read Marshall's full response here.

Marsha Nelson

  1. B
  2. B
  3. D
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read Nelson's full response here.

Dakota Drouillard

  1. B
  2. B
  3. D
  4. C
  5. C
  6. B

Read Drouillard's full response here.

Ward C

Marcia Hole

  1. B
  2. B+
  3. C+
  4. B
  5. C
  6. B

Read Hole's full response here.

David Dougherty

  1. C
  2. B-
  3. C
  4. C
  5. C
  6. C

Read Dougherty's full response here.

Lisa Shefsky

  1. B
  2. D
  3. D
  4. D
  5. F
  6. F

Read Shefsky's full response here.

Kassie Burkholder

  1. B
  2. B+
  3. C+
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read Burkholder's full response here.

Ward D

Trisha Estabrooks

  1. B+
  2. B+
  3. C
  4. B
  5. C
  6. A

Read Estrabrooks' full response here.

Ward E

Kim Doyle Thorsen

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. C
  6. B

Read Doyle Thorsen's full response here.

Rebecca Graff-McRae

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read Graff-McRae's full response here.

Ward F

Nancy Hunt

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read Hunt's full response here.

Julie Kusiek

  1. B
  2. B+
  3. A
  4. B+
  5. B+
  6. A

Read Kusiek's full response here.

Kimberley McMann

  1. B
  2. B
  3. C-
  4. C
  5. C
  6. A

Read McMann's full report here.

Ken Lister

  1. B+
  2. B
  3. C
  4. B
  5. B-
  6. B

Read Lister's full report here.

Ward G

Saadiq Sumar

  1. B+
  2. A
  3. C-
  4. C
  5. C
  6. A

Read Sumar's full response here.

Healther D Swain

  1. B
  2. B-
  3. D
  4. D
  5. C
  6. C

Read Swain's full response here.

Ward H

COPA did not receive any responses from candidates in Ward H.

Ward I

Emily MacKenzie

  1. B
  2. B
  3. C-
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read MacKenzie's full response here.

Navjot Kaur

  1. B
  2. B
  3. C-
  4. B
  5. B-
  6. B

Read Kaur's full response here.

Jan Sawyer

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. C
  5. B-
  6. A

Read Sawyer's full response here.

Catholic School Board

COPA received responses from three candidates for Edmonton Catholic School Board.

Ward 75

Alene Mutala

  1. D
  2. B
  3. C-
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B

Read Mutala's full response here.

Ward 77

Kara Pelech

  1. B
  2. B
  3. B
  4. B
  5. C
  6. B

Read Pelech's full response here.

Laura Thibert

  1. B-
  2. D
  3. C-
  4. D
  5. C-
  6. B

Read Thibert's full response here.