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Municipal Election Candidates - Grande Prairie

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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What we asked candidates

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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 communitya 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

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Eunice Friesen

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

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Glyn Grüner

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

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Responses from Candidates for Council

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Dylan Bressey

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

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Solomon Okhifoh

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

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Tammy Brown

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

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John Lehners 

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

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Gladys Blackmore

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

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Melissa J. Erickson

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

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Ejibola Folashade Adetokunbo-Taiwo

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

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Kevin McLean

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

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Responses from Candidates for Public and Catholic School Board

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Public School Board

Andre Ouellette

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

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Paulette L. Kurylo

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

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Rob Martin

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

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Ainsley Miller

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

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Alex Innes

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

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Adrianne Larsen

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

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Chris Johnston

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

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Donna Koch

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

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Tammy Monro

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

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Karna Germsheid

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

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Ray Buziak

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

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Ryan van Drecht

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

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Catholic School Board

Michael Ouellette

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

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Alyeska Silvester-Degen

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

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Jermiah English

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

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Rick Sakundiak

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

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