Here's who is running to be the next N.W.T. MP
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It's official.
Canadians will be going to the polls on April 28, after Prime Minister Mark Carney triggered a snap election in Ottawa Sunday.
Here are the candidates confirmed to be running so far for the N.W.T.'s only seat in the House of Commons.
Kelvin Kotchilea will be the NDP candidate for the Northwest Territories. The party confirmed him as their candidate back in 2023.
Kotchilea is a Tłı̨chǫ citizen, who grew up in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., and currently lives in Yellowknife.
He has worked for the territorial government for 14 years, most of which has been spent with the department of Environment and Climate Change. He is currently the recycling program co-ordinator for the department's waste reduction management division.
This will be Kotchilea's second time running to be the N.W.T.'s MP. He also ran for the seat as the NDP candidate in 2021, when he narrowly lost to Liberal MP Michael McLeod.
In an interview with CBC News, Kotchilea said key issues for him include the cost of living in the N.W.T. and advancing infrastructure like the Mackenzie Valley Highway, clean energy infrastructure and housing.
"It's kind of sad to see that in 2025, we just don't have the infrastructure, the capacity to provide the necessary services that are very important to the North," he said. "I would like to support that area."
He said that as an MP, we would also like to push Ottawa to advance reconciliation.
"You know, in the early [to] mid 1900s, we were promised a lot of things in the sense of housing, sovereignty, education, health care — and none of those promises that were made to us were ever granted," he said.
Kotchilea said he will be knocking on doors and meeting as many people as possible in the territory throughout his campaign.
Yellowknife mayor Rebecca Alty is the Liberal Party's candidate for the Northwest Territories riding this election.
Alty was born and raised in Yellowknife.
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