‘Stop splitting the vote’: Belanger seeking NDP support to win riding
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Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River Liberal candidate Buckley Belanger wants NDP supporters in the riding to support his campaign to become the next Member of Parliament.
“Stop splitting the vote between the Liberals and the NDP,” he said. “We’re not enemies, we have a lot of the same principles. We can get together, join forces or we can sit at home and have much of the same thing happening to us. I don’t think people want that.”
Belanger has been involved in politics since becoming the mayor of Île-à-la-Crosse at 28, a community where he was born, raised and still resides. He became a provincial MLA in 1995 when he was first elected as a Liberal. He later decided to join the NDP, subsequently won a byelection to keep his seat in 1998 and has served the Athabasca constituency in that capacity up until his resignation this month.
This is by far the largest election Belanger has been involved with, he explained, adding the top concerns are highways, housing and healing. He said constituents are tired of under-investments in those areas as it has led to a poor highway system and overcrowded housing.
