CBRM election candidates respond to questions about homelessness and affordable housing

Members of the Affordable Housing and Homelessness Working Group submitted a series of questions to all CBRM mayoral and council candidates by email on October 7. Below are the responses received to date (October 17).

Mayor Donnie Bacich
Cecil Clarke Responded
James Edwards
Carla George Responded
Vince Hall
Kevin MacEachern
Archie MacKinnon
Rankin MacSween Responded
Joe ward Responded

 

District 1 Gordon MacDonald (Acclaimed) Responded
District 2
Earlene MacMullin (Acclaimed )
District 3
Esmond (Blue) Marshall
Glenn Murrant
Michael Vickers Responded
Tom Vickers
District 4
Steve Gillespie (Acclaimed)
District 5 Eldon MacDonald
Bennett MacIntyre Responded
District 6
Glenn Paruch (Acclaimed)
District 7
Steve Parsons (Acclaimed)
District 8 Derrick Kennedy Responded
Shawn Lesnick
District 9 Kyron Coombes Responded
Dave MacKeigan
 Ken Tracey
District 10 Matthew Boyd Responded
William Martin Responded
Paul Nickituk
District 11 Darren O’Quinn
Louie Piovesan
District 12 Gary B. Borden
Lorne Green Responded
Krys Maher Responded
Kim Sheppard
CSAP Clemont Charland

Responses to each of the five questions are below, beginning with mayoral candidates in alphabetical order, followed by council candidates in order of district. Where a candidate provided a response but did not answer a specific question, this is indicated by “No answer provided”.

Some candidates provided answers outside of the scope of the questions. These responses are listed in the last section titled “Other responses not linked to Questions”.

You can view the responses in a spreadsheet here.

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