Meet the 6 people running federally in P.E.I.'s Cardigan riding
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With just days to go until Canadians head to the polls to vote in the federal election, candidates across P.E.I. are hitting the campaign trail in an effort to become — or remain — a member of Parliament. To make sense of who's running for which party and where, CBC P.E.I. spoke to the candidates running in each of the province's four ridings.
Our final trip is to Cardigan, where there will definitely be a new MP after voting day on Monday.
P.E.I.'s easternmost riding — which is also its largest in area and has the most voters, according to Elections Canada — means a lot of ground to cover for the six candidates. Three of them are running for the first time, while the other three have been on the ballot before.
This is also the only Island riding without an incumbent. Liberal MP Lawrence MacAulay did not reoffer in this election after a 36-year career representing Cardigan in Ottawa.
Maria Rodriguez is running for the first time, for the federal Green Party.
Originally from Venezuela, she knows the power the oil and gas industry has there and wants to see that curtailed in Canada.
She fears the climate crisis "is falling a little bit by the wayside" in this campaign.
"Climate change, it's very close to my heart, and the influence of oil and gas on policy and economic decisions is even closer to my heart."
Rodriguez said she's hearing the same issues at the doors as other Island candidates: expensive groceries, U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war and health care.
All those things eventually circle back to climate change, she said.
"We have a crisis of affordability, we have the tariffs, we have economic risks everywhere, we have the issues with health," she said. "All these issues are not independent of the climate crisis. They are fuelled by it in my ways."
She's also been hearing about another big issue for eastern P.E.I. — the reliability of ferry service across the Northumberland Strait.
"We need more oversight," she said. "We need the two-ferry service…. We just think that they absolutely have to guarantee it."
The Green Party is in favour of reducing or eliminating the tolls to use the ferry and to cross the Confederation Bridge, Rodriguez said.
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