Mayoral candidates make pitch for your vote (6 photos)

Mayoral candidates, along with candidates for council wards, in the municipal election campaign presented their visions for Sault Ste. Marie in a meet and greet event held by the Sault Ste. Marie and District Labour Council at the Ontario Public Service Employees Union regional office on Great Northern Road Tuesday evening.

Robert Peace said “I want you to know that you have a friend here. You have someone who is not part of the club.” The candidate said he would - if elected mayor - would push for the reopening of the Pointe Des Chenes campground, the sale of surplus land to make space for the building of affordable housing and stop any further spending on the city’s downtown plaza project.

Hilsinger said she would, as mayor, be an advocate for the Sault in approaching the provincial government regarding its health care needs, better Ontario Works and ODSP rates and work with the community’s postsecondary schools to offer much needed skilled trades training.Stating he sees people living in poverty in the Sault on a daily basis, Kern said he would, as mayor, push the province for more funding to address poverty and mental health addictions.

“We must all join to fight against the billionaire big box store owners that continue to squeeze their employees with unrealistic minimum wages and part time hours, victimizing our immigrants and foreign student labour that practically run the service industry in this town by forcing skilled labourers into low paying jobs. That’s a federal issue that we have to deal with,” said Peace.

Shoemaker said he wants to see a safe consumption site for drug users, more people moving freely downtown by having a permanent police presence in the downtown core and an expansion of the Hub Trail with spokes to James Street and Bayview.

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