It was a full house at the Bruce Power Visitor Centre theatre for another Huron Bruce all candidates meeting.
All five candidates were on hand Tuesday night to sell their platforms and take questions from the audience that were all over the map.
Accountability, agriculture, making ends meet, divorce and nuclear were just some of the subjects brought up for discussion.
Liberal Charlie Bagnato was there selling the party’s slant on the agriculture business.
He says his party, along with the Ontario Liberal party, have a risk management program that he says will revitalize the small towns of Huron Bruce with the result more young people will stay on the farm.
The NDP’s Grant Robertson says no matter what the issue, it comes down to family affordability.
Robertson says people are telling him they can’t handle the high cost of living and something has to be done about it.
He says Ottawa simply isn’t listening right now and that’s why he’s running–to bring small town rural Huron Bruce a voice that is heard in the nation’s capital.
Conservative Ben Lobb says he stands by his party’s record in the past and the platform for the future.
Lobb says people have told him they don’t even want this 300-million-dollar election.
Lobb suggests the money could have been better spent helping low-income seniors with guaranteed income supplements.
Independent candidate Dennis Valenta says he’s the obvious choice since he has no party to answer to and no rules on how to vote on issues.
Valenta says he will reflect the constituents of Huron Bruce.
His main issue remains an overhaul of the divorce laws–something he says 85 per cent of Canadians have been calling for but this past government and others before it have done nothing.
Green Party candidate Eric Shelley had people listening when he said he supports the nuclear industry for the time being.
He says there are bigger fish to fry when it comes to carbon emissions.
Shelley says government should be going after the oil and coal industries before even considering the nuclear industry.
The all candidates meeting was put on by the Saugeen Shores Chamber of Commerce and the Kincardine and District Chamber of Commerce.
