Green Party of Canada candidates, 2008 Canadian federal election

Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou

Patrick Rancourt [1]

Abitibi—Témiscamingue

Bruno Côté [2]

Ahuntsic

Lynette Tremblay [3]

Alfred-Pellan

Tristan Desjardins Drouin [4]

Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel

Pierre Audette [5]

Beauce

Nicolas Rochette [6]

Beauharnois—Salaberry

David Smith [7]

Beauport—Limoilou

Luc Côté [8]

Berthier—Maskinongé

Denis Lefebvre [9]

Bourassa

François Boucher [10]

Brossard—La Prairie

Sonia Ziadé [11]

Chambly—Borduas

Olivier Adam [12]

Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles

François Bédard [13]

Châteauguay—Saint-Constant

Brian Sarwer-Foner [14]

Chicoutimi—Le Fjord

Jean-François Veilleux [15]

Compton—Stanstead

Gary Caldwell [16]

Drummond

Réginald Gagnon [17]

Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Julien Leblanc [18]

Gatineau

David Inglis [19]

Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia

Louis Drainville [20]

Hochelaga

Philippe Larochelle [21]

Honoré-Mercier

Gaetan Bérard [22]

Hull—Aylmer

Frédéric Pouyot [23]

Jeanne-Le Ber

Véronik Sansoucy [24]

Joliette

Annie Durette [25]

Jonquière—Alma

No candidate

La Pointe-de-l'Île

Domita Cundari [26]

Lac-Saint-Louis

Peter Graham [27]

LaSalle—Émard

Kristina Vitelli [28]

Laurentides—Labelle

Jacques Rigal [29]

Laurier—Sainte-Marie

Dylan Percival-Maxwell [30]

Laval

Eric Madelein [31]

Laval—Les Îles

Brent Neil [32]

Lévis—Bellechasse

Lynne Champoux-Williams [33]

Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher

Danielle Moreau [34]

Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière

Shirley Picknell [35]

Louis-Hébert

Michèle Fontaine [36]

Louis-Saint-Laurent

Jean Cloutier [37]

Manicouagan

Jacques Gélineau [38]

Marc-Aurèle-Fortin

Lise Bissonnette [39]

Mégantic—L'Érable

Jean Guernon [40]

Montcalm

Michel Paulette [41]

Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup

Claude Gaumond [42]

Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord

Jacques Legros [43]

Mount Royal

Tyrell Alexander [44]

Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine

Jessica Gal [45]

Papineau

Ingrid Hein [46]

Pierrefonds—Dollard

Ryan Young [47]

Pontiac

André Sylvestre [48]

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

Nathan Weatherdon [49]

Québec

Yonnel Bonaventure [50]

Repentigny

Paul Fournier [51]

Richmond—Arthabaska

François Fillon [52]

Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques

James Morisson [53]

Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

Marie Martine Bédard [54]

Rivière-du-Nord

Rene Piche [55]

Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean

Jocelyn Tremblay [56]

Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie

Vincent Larochelle [57]

Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert

Simon Bernier [58]

Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot

Jacques Tétreault [59]

Saint-Jean

Pierre Tremblay [60]

Saint-Lambert

Diane Joubert [61]

Saint-Laurent—Cartierville

No candidate due to deal between Elizabeth May and Liberal Party leader Stéphane Dion not to run candidates in each other's ridings.

Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel

Frank Monteleone [62]

Saint-Maurice—Champlain

Martial Toupin [63]

Sherbrooke

No candidate.

Terrebonne—Blainville

Martin Drapeau [64]

Trois-Rivières

Ariane Blais [65]

Vaudreuil—Soulanges

Jean-Yves Massenet [66]

Verchères—Les Patriotes

Annie Morel [67]

Westmount—Ville-Marie

Claude William Genest [68]

Ajax—Pickering

Mikhel Harilaid [69]

Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing

Lorraine Rekmans [70]

Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale

Peter Ormond [71]

Barrie

Erich Jacoby-Hawkins [72] [73]

Beaches—East York

Zoran Markovski [74]

Bramalea—Gore—Malton

Mark Pajot [75]

Brampton—Springdale: Dave Finlay

Dave Finlay

Brampton West

Patti Chmelyk

Brant

Nora Fueten [76]

Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound

Dick Hibma [77]

Burlington

Marnie Mellish [78]

Cambridge

Scott Cosman [79]

Carleton—Mississippi Mills

Jake Cole [80]

Chatham-Kent—Essex

Alina Abbott [81]

Davenport

Wayne Scott [82]

Don Valley East

Wayne Clements [83]

Don Valley West

Georgina Wilcock [84]

Dufferin—Caledon

Ard Van Leeuwen [85]

Durham

Stephen Leahy [86]

Eglinton—Lawrence

Andrew James [87]

Elgin—Middlesex—London

Noel Burgon [88]

Essex

Richard Bachynsky [89]

Richard Bachynsky is an environmentalist, writer, and consultant. Richard has been active in environmental interests since the mid-1980s, when he began to travel as a consultant. He was to see the complete disregard for environmental issues evident in both developing countries and North America.

Richard was born and raised in the Windsor area, and has seen the rapid decline of the region in terms of jobs, environmental issues, and health related issues. With the failure of recent members of Parliament to attract new industry, improve the environment, or create better infrastructure, members of the community are motivated for change.

A region rich in agriculture, industry, and resources, it is inconceivable – but true – that the region has one of Canada’s highest unemployment rates. The residents of the region are being shortchanged, and need better federal support for job creation, tourism promotion, small business assistance, health care, and seniors.

Active in finance, Richard has worked towards establishing new green industries including tire and industrial waste rubber recycling, biodiesel fuel plants, and alternative energy development worldwide. He also has extensive experience in real estate management and financing, and has served as a consultant for numerous firms completing projects both in Canada, and internationally. He currently holds of the position of Vice President International Sales and Finance for GreenShift Corporation, NY, NY USA, is Head of Export Finance Department, Roberts &Schaefer Engineering and Construction, USA., Finance Dir for Alternativa Corporation, Ukraine and is a Broker for Argentum Mortgages Toronto, and a consultant for Bachynsky Group, Bachynsky Realty Inc., and Bachynsky Mortgage Corporation, Windsor.

Richard holds an MBA and is certified as a mortgage broker in Ontario. He is a member of the Board of the Amherstburg Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he was a member of parent and teacher association of F.J. Brennan High School in Windsor, and of the OMBA. In addition, he was active as a coach for minor hockey for the Windsor Minor Hockey Association, Riverside Hockey Association, and the Patterson Chiefs Hockey Program. Richard is the parent of 3 teenagers Erik, Laura, and Daniel.

Richard Bachynsky was the candidate for the Green Party of Canada for the Federal election of 2008.

Richard Bachynsky is currently the nominated candidate for the Green Party of Canada for the riding of Windsor-Tecumseh.

Etobicoke Centre

Marion Schaffer [90]

Etobicoke—Lakeshore

David Corail [91]

Etobicoke North

Nigel Barriffe [92]

Glengarry—Prescott—Russell

Sylvie Lemieux [93]

Guelph

Mike Nagy [94]

Haldimand—Norfolk

Stephana Johnston [95]

Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock: Michael Bell

Michael Bell owns a publishing company, and has published The Wire and The Green Zine. He is also a singer-songwriter and has worked with the Peterborough Food Bank, Peterborough Flood Relief, World Vision, the United Way and Amnesty International. He has spent the majority of his life in Peterborough, although he says he became involved with the environmental movement while living in Australia between 2006 and 2008. He initially sought the Green Party nomination for Peterborough in the buildup to the 2008 election, but either withdrew from the contest or was defeated by rival candidate Emily Berrigan. Running in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, he limited his election expenses to only two dollars in 2008. He received 4,505 votes (8.29%), finishing fourth against Conservative incumbent Barry Devolin.

Halton

Amy Collard [96]

Hamilton Centre

John Livingstone [97]

Hamilton East—Stoney Creek

Dave Hart Dyke [98]

Hamilton Mountain

Stephen Brotherston [99]

Huron—Bruce

Glen Smith [100]

Kenora

Jo Jo Holiday [101]

Kingston and the Islands

Eric Walton [102]

Kitchener Centre

John Bithell [103]

Kitchener—Conestoga

Jamie Kropf [104]

Kitchener—Waterloo

Cathy MacLellan [105]

Lambton—Kent—Middlesex

Jim Johnston [106]

Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington

Chris Walker [107]

Leeds—Grenville

Jeanie Warnock [108]

London—Fanshawe

Daniel O'Neail [109]

London North Centre

Mary Ann Hodge [110]

London West

Monica Jarabek [111]

Markham—Unionville

Leonard Aitken [112]

Mississauga—Brampton South

Grace Yogaretnam [113]

Mississauga East—Cooksville

Jaymini Bhikha [114]

Mississauga—Erindale

Richard Pietro [115]

Mississauga South

Richard Laushway [116]

Mississauga—Streetsville

Otto Casanova [117]

Nepean—Carleton

Lori Gadzala [118]

Newmarket—Aurora

Glenn Hubbers [119]

Niagara Falls

Shawn Willick [120]

Niagara West—Glanbrook

Sid Frere [121]

Nickel Belt

Frederick Twilley [122]

Nipissing—Timiskaming

Craig Bridges [123]

Northumberland—Quinte West

Ralph Torrie [124]

Oak Ridges—Markham

Richard Taylor [125]

Oakville

Blake Poland [126]

Oshawa

Pat Gostlin was a retired teacher. She was killed in a car accident involving a suspected drunk driver on 26 October 2008, less than two weeks following the election.

Ottawa Centre

Jen Hunter [127]

Hunter has been an executive member of Equal Voice National Capital Chapter, has led an annual international Team Learning Adventure, was co-leader of a women's leadership event in Toronto, and was the first international board member for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. She is also the founder of the Learning Catalyst. Hunter attended Queen's University, where she received her honours degree in political studies. Hunter chose to run for office in order to increase the number of women running. She believes in giving more federal money to cities, and in income splitting.

Ottawa—Orléans

Paul Maillet [128]

Ottawa South

Qais Ghanem [129]

Ottawa—Vanier

Akbar Manoussi [130]

Ottawa West—Nepean

Frances Coates [131]

Oxford

Cathy Mott [132]

Parkdale—High Park

Robert L. Rishchynski [133]

Parry Sound—Muskoka: Glen Hodgson

Glen Hodgson was raised in Orillia. He has a Bachelor's degree in English and Environmental Studies from Trent University and a Bachelor of Education degree from Queen's University. A high school teacher by profession, he is also a newspaper columnist and has served on the West Parry Sound District Museum and the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve.

Hodgson joined the Green Party while attending Trent in the early 1990s and has run for the party in four federal elections and one provincial election. He has been nominated as the party's candidate for Parry Sound—Muskoka in the 2011 federal election. He briefly joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1998 to support David Orchard's leadership bid.

He criticized the heightened security at the 2010 G8 summit in Huntsville and the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto, and said that he would protest peacefully at the "People First! We Deserve Better" rally.

Perth—Wellington

John Cowling [134]

Peterborough: Emily Berrigan

Emily Berrigan was twenty-one years old at the time of the election. She became active with the Green Party while attending high school in Port Hope, Ontario, and later worked for eight months at party headquarters in Ottawa. During the election, she noted that she was from a working class background. She received 4,029 votes (6.91%), finishing fourth against Conservative incumbent Dean Del Mastro. She later moved to Toronto and became project manager for a non-governmental organization.

Berrigan was one of several people arrested on 26 June 2010, at the G20 Toronto protests. After taking part in non-violent protests, and wandering the streets in observation, she and a group of friends returned to Queen's Park in the evening for their bicycles. She was arrested while standing in the designated protest zone and taken to a detention centre, where she was kept in a small cage that was exposed to pepper spray and not given food or water for eight hours. She was released the next day, after being charged with obstruction and unlawful demonstration. Berrigan has described her arrest as "completely unacceptable" and the arrest conditions as "inhumane."

Pickering—Scarborough East

Jason Becevello [135]

Prince Edward—Hastings

Alan Coxwell [136]

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke

Ben Hoffman [137]

Richmond Hill

Dylan Marando [138]

St. Catharines

Jim Fannon [139]

St. Paul's

Justin Erdman [140]

Sarnia—Lambton

Alan McKeown [141]

Sault Ste. Marie

Luke Macmichael [142]

Scarborough—Agincourt

Adrian Molder [143]

Scarborough Centre

Ella Ng [144]

Scarborough—Guildwood

Alonzo Bartley [145]

Scarborough—Rouge River

Attila Nagy [146]

Scarborough Southwest

Stefan Dixon [147]

Simcoe—Grey

Peter Ellis [148]

Simcoe North

Valerie Powell [149]

Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry

David Rawnsley [150]

Sudbury

Gordon Harris has been a sales and marketing manager and a publisher. He moved to Sudbury in 2002 and became president of the Sudbury Arts Council in 2007. Before joining the Green Party, he worked on election campaigns for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the Liberal Party of Canada. He aligned with the Greens in the 2003 provincial election, and has served on the party's provincial executive. In the 2008 election, Harris said that he was not aligned with either a right-wing or left-wing ideology. He received 3,330 votes (7.75%), finishing fourth against New Democratic Party candidate Glenn Thibeault. He planned to seek the party's nomination again for the 2011 federal election, but later withdrew.

Thornhill

Norbert Koehl [151]

Thunder Bay—Rainy River

Russ Aegard [152]

Thunder Bay—Superior North

Brendan Hughes [153]

Timmins—James Bay

Larry Verner [154]

Toronto Centre

Ellen Michelson [155]

Toronto—Danforth

Sharon Howarth [156]

Trinity—Spadina

Stephen LaFrenie [157]

Vaughan

Adrian Visentin [158]

Welland

Jennifer Mooradian [159]

Wellington—Halton Hills

Brent Bouteiller [160]

Whitby—Oshawa

Doug Anderson [161]

Willowdale

Lou Carcasole [162]

Windsor—Tecumseh

Kyle Prestanski [163]

Windsor West

John Esposito [164]

York Centre

Rosemary Frei [165]

York—Simcoe

John Dewar [166]

York South—Weston

Andre Papadimitriou [167]

York West

Nick Capra [168]

Calgary Centre

Natalie Odd [169]

Calgary Centre-North

Eric Donovan [170]

Calgary East

Nathan Coates [171]

Calgary Northeast

Abeed Monty Ahmad [172]

Calgary—Nose Hill

Tony Hajj [173]

Calgary Southeast

Margaret Chandler [174]

Calgary Southwest

Kelly Christie [175]

Calgary West

Randy Weeks [176]

Crowfoot

Kaity Kettenbach [177]

Edmonton Centre

David J. Parker [178]

Edmonton East

Trey Capnerhurst [179]

Edmonton—Leduc

Valerie Kennedy [180]

Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont

David Allan Hrushka [181]

Edmonton—St. Albert

Peter Johnston [182]

Edmonton—Sherwood Park

Nina Erfani [183]

Edmonton—Spruce Grove

Wendy Walker [184]

Edmonton—Strathcona

Jane Thrall [185]

Fort McMurray—Athabasca

Dylan Richards [186]

Lethbridge

Amanda Swagar [187]

Macleod

Jared McCollum [188]

Medicine Hat

Kevin Dodd [189]

Peace River

Jennifer Villebrun [190]

Red Deer

Evan Bedford [191]

Vegreville—Wainwright

Will Munsey [192]

Westlock—St. Paul

Aden Murphy [193]

Wetaskiwin

Les Parsons [194]

Wild Rose

Lisa Fox [195]

Yellowhead

Monika Schaefer [196]

Abbotsford

Karen Durant [197]

British Columbia Southern Interior

Andy Morel [198]

Burnaby—Douglas

Doug Perry [199]

Burnaby—New Westminster

Carrie-Ann McLaren [200]

Cariboo—Prince George

Amber van Drielen [201]

Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon

Barbara LeBeau [202]

Delta—Richmond East

Matt Laine [203]

Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca

Brian Gordon [204]

Fleetwood—Port Kells

Brian Newbold [205]

Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo

Donovan Cavers [206]

Kelowna—Lake Country

Angela Reid [207]

Kootenay—Columbia

Ralph Moore [208]

Langley

Patrick Meyer [209]

Nanaimo—Alberni

John Fryer [210]

Nanaimo—Cowichan

Christina Knighton [211]

Newton—North Delta

Liz Walker [212]

New Westminster—Coquitlam

Marshall Smith [213]

North Vancouver

Jim Stephenson [214]

Okanagan—Coquihalla

Dan Bouchard [215]

Okanagan—Shuswap

Huguette Allen [216]

Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission

Mike Gildersleeve [217]

Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam

Rod Brindamour [218]

Prince George—Peace River

Hilary Crowley [219]

Richmond

Michael Wolfe [220]

Saanich—Gulf Islands

Andrew Lewis [221]

Skeena—Bulkley Valley

Hondo Arendt [222]

South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale

David Blair [223]

Surrey North

Dan Kashamanga [224]

Vancouver Centre

Adriane Carr [225]

Vancouver East

Mike Carr [226]

Vancouver Island North

Philip Stone [227]

Vancouver Kingsway

Doug Warkentin [228]

Vancouver Quadra

Daniel Grice [229]

Vancouver South

Csaba Gulyas [230]

Victoria

Adam Saab [231]

West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country

Blair Wilson [232]