Economic security is top of mind in St. John's East. These candidates say they'll earn it
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One of the most densely populated ridings in Newfoundland and Labrador is home to an array of contenders for the job in Ottawa.
Five campaigns are ongoing in the region that encompasses downtown St. John's, Torbay and Portugal Cove-St. Phillips, where Liberal incumbent Joanne Thompson is fighting to keep her seat.
CBC News is profiling each of the province's seven ridings in the leadup to election day on April 28.
Here are the choices for St. John's East:
Joanne Thompson won the riding in 2021, and recently served as fisheries minister.
A nurse-turned-entrepreneur, she told CBC News she's fought through several economic downturns, building her business with her husband from scratch.
Her work on the trail so far has revealed that constituents want a strong leader, she said, someone who understands economics and who's able to build strong trading relationships around the world.
"There's no doubt that the politics and the reality of [U.S. President Donald] Trump … has cast a long shadow over Canada," Thompson said.
Thompson says the former prime minister invested heavily in Newfoundland and Labrador, but a new era, and new threats, mean she's looking for other characteristics in a Liberal government.
"The reality is that Mark Carney is a different leader than Justin Trudeau," she said.
"Mark Carney, in this moment, is the person that I feel has the knowledge, the experience and the leadership to really direct this province, this country, through a turbulent period of four years."
Once the interim provincial Tory leader, David Brazil stepped into the federal ring last year, after more than a decade as the MHA for Conception Bay East-Bell Island.
"I've been around," Brazil said. "I'm a no-nonsense politician … you ask me a question, I'll give you an honest answer. You may not like the answer, but my mother used to always say if it's an honest one, it's the right one."
Brazil has a progressive approach, he says, and thinks government should build "programs and services that provide for everybody."
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