Liberal candidate Cyndi Mills will be participating in three All-Candidates meetings. An important part of democracy, voters of Algonquin-Renfrew-Pembroke will have an opportunity to directly hear from the candidates that participate.
- April 16th, 7:00 p.m. – COGOCO TV will air an All Candidates meeting locally on Channel 12 and on-line.
- April 23rd, 2025 – The Algonquins of Pikwakanagan are hosting an All Candidates meeting.
- April 25th, 2025, 7 p.m. – MyFM is hosting an All Candidates meeting at Festival Hall in Pembroke.
D’Eon,S.(2025,Apr.11) Cyndi Mills accepts invitations to All Candidates meetings [media advisory]
I hope all the candidates actually attend these all-candidates meetings so we could hear their views and their party policies on various important issues. This will be an especially important election for Canadians and we need to make some serious decisions and choices. Some candidates and parties in the past have had a serious aversion to attending all-candidates meetings and seem to prefer giving the “mushroom treatment” to electors:- ie keep us in the dark and feed us a lot of horse manure. Perhaps the Current could ask the various candidates for individual statements on their party policies for publication in the Current. One big issue is economic development to provide more employment and prosperity for local young folks who want to stay here and not be forced to migrate to big cities. Ca 35% of local residents have been born only since 2000 although they comprise only ca 10% of voters at this time but another ca 30% of residents were born between 1980 and 2000 and now comprise ca 30% of voters and these middle-aged folks are mostly parents now with children of their own. Mike Coates, a Conservative retiree who settled here, tried to address this issue back in 2018 but the locals brushed him off but the issue of economic development and the economic situation for local young people is not going away and is even more pressing now and it seems as if us “outsiders” seem to be more interested in this issue than the local “old-timers”.