NDP Leader Saganash To Visit Brantford, Six Nations and Haldimand-Norfolk Monday
NDP MP and Leadership Candidate Romeo Saganash will be visiting Brantford and Six Nations on Monday Nov 21st and will be holding public events including a Town Hall-style meeting at Woodland Cultural Centre’s Orientation Room beginning at 6:30pm.
The day promises to be quite productive as Saganash accompanied by recent Brant Federal Candidate Marc Laferriere will be meeting with city officials, and later with members of Six Nations Elected Council. Also MP Saganash will be spending some time off of the campaign trail to share his inspirational story with youngsters at Princess Elizabeth School in Eagle Place (10:45am start) and Hagersville Secondary School (12:15pm start) in the riding of Haldimand-Norfolk.
Roméo Saganash is the MP for Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou in Northern Quebec. He is a residential school survivor and was the First Cree to obtain a law degree in Quebec; he was a Deputy Grand Chief of the Grand Council of Crees in Québec as well as the vice-chair of the Cree Regional Authority. Romeo played a key role in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Paix des Braves agreement between the Government of Quebec and the Grand Council of the Crees and helped negotiate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The new leader will be elected at a leadership convention in Toronto on March 24, 2012 and will be chosen via a one-member, one-vote model. Marc Laferriere the 2011 Federal NDP Candidate for Brant announced his support for Romeo Saganash's candidacy for NDP Leader early in the week while the two were visiting youth at the Ontario New Democratic Youth Convention in Sudbury, On.
Under Laferriere’s candidacy the Brant NDP won the 2010 leader’s challenge for signing up the most new party members and was named most-improved riding by former NDP Leader Jack Layton. Laferriere was cited by a Global News/Politwitter.ca study as “the most engaged” New Democrat on social media in the 2011 race. Laferriere, a social worker, was also nominated for a J.S Woodsworth Award in 2011 for anti-racist community development work done in Brantford, Six Nations and Thunder Bay.
In his endorsement of Saganash, Laferriere stated “I believe in the NDP as a unifying force in Canadian politics. I believe in the grassroots and I believe New Democrats can become government and deliver on the promise of a new kind of politics for all of Canada. I know that Romeo Saganash shares that vision. He’s a man of action who can get the job done,” Laferriere will also be an active member of the Saganash leadership campaign team.
”I am very grateful for the support of a terrific organizer like Marc Laferriere. He is the kind of candidate - and Brant the kind of riding - that is an example of how the NDP will win the next 60 seats and form government in the next election,” said Saganash who will be the first leadership candidate to visit Brant Riding.
twitter.com/MarcLaferriere | youtube.com/TheBrantMarc | http://ca.linkedin.com/in/marclaferriere "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. All my very best, - Jack Layton" | 
