Minister of middle class prosperity seeks re-election in Ottawa-Vanier

Voters in Ottawa-Vanier have been at the ballot box to electamember of Parliamentevery two years since 2017.

But the riding, which containsa large Franco-Ontarian population,has been solidly red since1933.

Mona Fortier wonit with more than 51per cent of the vote last time around, and also won it in the 2017 byelection.

Fortier isthe minister of middle class prosperity, a new role created in 2019. In an interview with CBC Radio's The Current shortly after her appointmentwas made public,the Liberal MP defined her role as allowingCanadians to thrive bystrengthening the economy a prospect that likely looked differentpre-pandemic.

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Other candidates in this riding are:

• Crystelle Bourguignonof the Free Party,
• Canadian Forces reservist and Libertarian Party candidateDaniel Elford,
• lawyer and former Canadian Revenue Agency analyst Jean-Jacques Desgranges for the People's Party,
• the NDP'sLyse-Pascale Inamuco, who has been a co-chair of Women's March Ottawa and ran in the Cumberland ward byelection in 2020.
• ConservativeHeidi Jensen,the founder of a firm that specializes intrademark protectionanda longtime minor hockey volunteer,
• Independent candidate Marie-Chantal Leriche,
• and Christian Proulx of the Green Party, a plumber and construction worker.

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