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Press Release
For immediate release
July 31, 2008
David Orchard and Joan Beatty to contest federal Liberal nomination. August
14th date set for Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River.
The Saskatchewan Liberal Association has given notice
for the nomination meetings for the
Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River riding’s federal
Liberal candidate to take place on Thursday, August
14th, in ten locations: Canoe Narrows
First Nation, Cumberland House, Deschambault Lake, La
Ronge, Pelican Lake First Nation (Chitek Lake), Meadow
Lake, Pelican Narrows, Pinehouse Lake, Prince Albert and
Red Earth First Nation. The hours are from 2:30 pm
to 9 pm, and members can vote in any location convenient
for them. Meanwhile, community leaders in the northwest
are also requesting that Ile-a-La Crosse to be
added to the locations, to serve the over 100 party
members in that region. David Orchard strongly supports
this urgent request, so that all members of the riding
have fair and equal access to a polling location. (See
enclosed poster for the exact locations.)
There are two candidates running, Joan Beatty
and David Orchard (with a third candidate, John
Dorion, having withdrawn earlier).
David Orchard farms organically in
Choiceland and Borden, and was considered a
“kingmaker” in the Liberal leadership contest when he
was able to deliver 150 delegates to Stéphane Dion,
helping make Mr. Dion’s victory possible. Orchard,
author of the bestselling The Fight for Canada: Four
Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism,
previously ran for the leadership of the Progressive
Conservative Party of Canada, in 1998 and 2003, and
prior to that was a founder of a citizens’ organization,
Citizens Concerned About Free Trade, which played a
significant role in the 1988 “free trade” election. He
opposed the takeover of the PC party by the Canadian
Alliance in 2003 and led a court fight to stop the
merger. Two years later he joined the Liberal Party of
Canada.
Over the last year Orchard has crisscrossed the
riding, clocking over 50,000 kms to know and be known,
and to understand in depth the myriad of issues facing
the vast riding. He has developed strong relationships
with aboriginal and non-aboriginal residents alike
across the north.
For more information about David Orchard’s campaign
in Desnethé, contact his campaign managers, Grant
Orchard and Marjaleena Repo at 306-244-9724 or
mrepo@sasktel.net
and
grantorchard@bellnet.ca. More information about Mr.
Orchard can be found at
www.davidorchard.com.
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