Mayor meets with campaign supporters

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — With a month left until the next Liberal candidate for the Peace River North riding is selected, Mayor Lori Ackerman met with supporters on Tuesday night at the Pomeroy Hotel.

The Mayor said she intends to be part of a leadership team in the B.C. legislature, and give the region solutions that aren’t ‘Victoria solutions.’

“I recognize that issues change, and they shift, and they come and go,” she said. “It’s the responsibility of those in government to create policy that is going to ensure they are effective beyond 100 miles from the 49th parallel.”

She said her commitment ‘goes without saying,’ as a resident of the Peace Region for over 30 years, where she raised her now-grown children.

“What we need is a voice that can take your thoughts down, solutions that have been built here,” she added.

Mayor Ackerman also said that the City expects to officially sign the agreement-in-principle on Site C community measures later this month, which were unveiled in February. She called the agreement ‘precedent-setting,’ stating that there are ‘aspects in that agreement that you will not see in any other agreement in this province.’

The cut-off for prospective members of the BC Liberal party looking to sign up for a membership is this Friday, at 4:30 p.m.

Currently, there appears to be only two candidates in the race for the title of Liberal nominee in this riding: Mayor Lori Ackerman and city councillor Dan Davies.

The candidate selection meeting is slated to take place on Saturday, May 7 — almost a year ahead of the next provincial election, scheduled for May 9, 2017.