{"id":8559,"date":"2025-04-11T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:42:19","slug":"south-shore-st-margarets-candidate-qa-session-planned-for-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/04\/11\/south-shore-st-margarets-candidate-qa-session-planned-for-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"South Shore-St. Margarets candidate Q&A session planned for Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The South Queens Chamber of Commerce is organizing a meet-and-greet in Liverpool with candidates in South Shore-St. Margarets. (Elections Canada)<\/p><\/div>\n

Voters in Queens County will get a chance to meet some of the candidates vying to be the next MP for South Shore-St. Margarets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The South Queens Chamber of Commerce and Main and Mersey Dining Room and Coffee Bar in Liverpool are teaming up for a candidate Q&A on Mon., April 21 from 4 to 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashley Christian is president of the chamber of commerce.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is a casual meet-and-greet forum,” Christian said. “What we\u2019re going to be doing is casual networking and then allowing each of the candidates five to 10 minutes to introduce themselves to the group and then we intend to take questions from the floor. So we expect one hour of a more formal question-and-answer period and then another hour of just casual networking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian said she expects three of the five candidates to be at the event: Liberal Jessica Fancy-Landry, the Green Party\u2019s Mark Embrett and Patrick Boyd of the People\u2019s Party of Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservative Rick Perkins, who is running for re-election, could not make it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian did not know whether Independent candidate Hayden Henderson will be at the event. Henderson is the outreach director for the youth wing of the NDP. He was a last-minute addition to the ballot after the NDP\u2019s Brendan Mosher dropped out and has since been endorsed by the NDP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe really wanted to give the citizens of Queens County an opportunity to meet everyone, hear their platforms, hear what\u2019s important to them and ask them questions,\u201d Christian said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event is free, though people have to register at this link<\/a>. <\/span>The federal election is April 28.<\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/candidatemeetgreetapr1124.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voters in Queens County will get a chance to meet some of the candidates vying to be the next MP for South Shore-St. Margarets. The South Queens Chamber of Commerce and Main and Mersey Dining Room and Coffee Bar in Liverpool are teaming up for a candidate Q&A on Mon., April 21 from 4 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3035,2050,2650,316,774,3036,385,3033,3030,2786,3031,3032,387,217,389,1577],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2025-election","tag-ashley-christian","tag-candidates","tag-election","tag-elections-canada","tag-federal-candidates","tag-federal-election","tag-hayden-henderson","tag-jessica-fancy-landry","tag-main-and-mersey-dining-room-and-coffee-bar","tag-mark-embrett","tag-patrick-boyd","tag-rick-perkins","tag-south-queens-chamber-of-commerce","tag-south-shore-st-margarets","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}