An initiative to provide voters with an opportunity to engage their federal election candidates on the environment will make stops in the ridings of Nipissing-Temiskaming, Parry Sound-Muskoka, and Sudbury.
It's part of a plan by GreenPAC, a non-partisan non-profit organization that works to build environmental leadership in politics.
Launched in 2015, it also operates an endorsement program for aspiring political candidates with a demonstrated commitment to the environment.
The organization is planning 117 community all-candidates debates across every part of Canada on Thursday, October 3.
No location has been announced for the Nipissing-Temiskaming debate, nor have local organizers been identified.
See the complete list of debates here.
The Liberals, Conservatives and People's Party all have local candidates, with the Green and NDP expected to select candidates within the next month.
“We have debates confirmed in nearly a third of all the ridings in Canada, and our top priority is to continue growing,” said Sabrina Bowman, Executive Director of GreenPAC.
“When we launched this project with the goal of 100 debates, we knew it was ambitious,” said Ryan Worms, Communications Director at Equiterre, “No debate project of this scale had ever taken place in Canada - nearly a third of all ridings and still growing. We know Canadians want elected leaders that care about the environment, but the support for this project has been nothing short of astounding.”
