In the first of our 905 candidate interviews, we speak to Roberto Henriquez, who is running for the NDP in the Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas riding. Henriquez moved to Hamilton as a student, and now practices law where he represents ‘everyday Hamiltonians’.
We dive into the NDP’s platform and look in particular at the housing affordability crisis that is a concern for millions of people across our region, as well as First Nations reconciliation and the the NDP’s environmental and climate change platform.
The study Roland mentions during the interview, which analyzed each individual party’s climate change policy and was critical of the NDP’s plan, was carried out by Mark Jaccard at Simon Fraser University (not the Fraser Institute as Roland suggested) and published on September 3rd in Policy Options. Jaccard’s analysis is only one assessment of each party’s greenhouse gas reduction policies, and his conclusions have been suggested to be too narrowly construed by the Pembina Institute and were disputed by Climate Action Network.
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