Strategy for this weekend before Monday’s vote – EDUCATE ALL candidates in your electoral district – Part 2
To find out the candidates running in your federal riding (electoral district), go to www.elections.ca.
The first search option is to enter your postal code in the top left field.
If you don’t know your electoral district already, it is sometimes not so straightforward.
Another page may come up and you may need to enter your street name. Or you can search by “electoral district name”, “candidate name,” “by maps,” “by place name (village, city),” “by list (all of Canada or by province).” There is another option for STRM Search if you live at a “Section-Township-Range-Meridian address.”
A page will come up identifying your electoral district. Make sure it is correct. If you have doubts you can click on “Returning Officer” across the top and call them or you can click on “Map” and identify your location within the borders shown on the map.
Click on the different menu buttons to find out where you should vote on election day, and other instructions about registration, ID, etc. You may need to specify your address details to identify the local polling station.
Click on “Candidates” at the top of the page to see the list of candidates who are “Confirmed.”
The table will show the candidate’s name and the Party name (if not an Independent). Sometimes it will show the phone number of the candidate’s office and sometimes the candidate’s website.
You may need to look up their website and specific contact information–see the information below for registered parties.
Contact each of them, independent candidates included, and challenge them concerning their facts and positions on dictatorial COVID-19 policies, including “vaccine passports.”
Supply them with the information you have learned, and remind them of the principles our society depends on in order to function.
If they are sympathetic with your concerns–regardless of Party and how you will vote–get their contact information and offer to keep in touch with them in future so that we can network and stand together in solidarity.
The list of parties represented will vary in different electoral districts. Watch out for independents also.
For each Party, you want to locate the specific electoral district website or candidate’s website if there is one.
This is an example of which parties are represented in my district–no independents:
- New Democratic Party
- Conservative Party of Canada
- People’s Party of Canada
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Green Party of Canada
- Christian Heritage Party of Canada
Here is the complete list of registered political parties for 2021, parties which may or may not be running confirmed candidates in your district.
On the same page (scroll down) you can see the official information about each Party, including their Leader, website, contact information, Chief Agent, etc.
I have linked to the website in each case. It’s possible that some of these won’t have any confirmed candidates or very few:
- Animal Protection Party of Canada
- Bloc Québécois
- Canada’s Fourth Front (https://fourthfront.ca/)
Canadian Nationalist Party (not linked: www.natparty.com) - Centrist Party of Canada (https://centristpartycanada.ca/)
- Christian Heritage Party of Canada
- Communist Party of Canada
- Conservative Party of Canada
- Free Party Canada
- Green Party of Canada
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Libertarian Party of Canada
- Marijuana Party
- Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
- Maverick Party
- National Citizens Alliance of Canada
- New Democratic Party
- Parti Patriote
- Parti pour l’Indépendance du Québec (https://quebecpays.com/)
- Parti Rhinocéros Party
- People’s Party of Canada
- Veterans Coalition Party of Canada
Next (will get right to it) we will dig up the platforms of those political parties who have confirmed candidates (trying to avoid the ones who don’t) as well as how to find more contact information for specific candidates.