Hello et bonjour à tous! My name is Jennifer Purdy. I am originally from Kanata, I am a family physician, a busy mother of triplets, and a 23-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces.

I am the Green Party of Ontario candidate because I believe Kanata-Carleton and Ontario deserve better. Over the last six and a half years, we have become accustomed to Ford government scandal after scandal. Alcohol roll-out scandal? Check. Greenbelt scandal? That too. Breaking unions and mistreating workers? Whenever he can. Destroying our public health care system? Yup, as a MD I witness the effects firsthand on colleagues and on patients and their families. Housing? Ford passed a law so that new housing has no rent increase limits… ignoring renters, worsening the affordability crisis, but benefiting wealthy developers.

Ford and his cronies aren’t serving US, the taxpayers. They serve the wealthy and the well-connected. That needs to stop.

We need MPPs and a Premier who will:

  • Put people first. Not the wealthy. Not the well-connected. PEOPLE.

  • Recognize the value that educators and support staff bring to Ontario. Children and youth are our future, they are the future of our economy, so it is important to support educators and supporting staff.

  • Save the public health care system. Ford has withheld billions of dollars from the system and furthermore has engaged in union breaking with Bill 124 and underpaying nurses and other health care workers. No one can afford to work for free, so expecting free work from nurses, doctors and health care workers must stop… or we will see the death of public health care.

  • Be kind, not cruel. Cutting services to autistic children. Cutting education to those with special needs. Refusing to increase below-poverty income for those living on disability. Rationing health care to the public. These are all intentionally cruel choices. They don’t save money and they worsen outcomes. It is time to have government that is truly for the PEOPLE.

  • Prioritize housing. Housing is a human right. In such a wealthy province it is inexcusable that we have people who are unhoused. Ford has worked way too long for developers and not for the PEOPLE. We need a realistic affordable housing plan

  • Climate crisis. If you’re a farmer whose yields are decreasing due to weather events. If you’re someone noticing potholes on the roads. If you recall the Dunrobin tornado in 2018, the torrential floods in 2017 and 2019, now every summer we have extreme heat, all year round we can have extreme weather events… climate crisis is here and it’s getting worse. Ford ignored his own government’s report on the consequences of climate crisis for all of us especially the agriculture sector. Ford insists on building more fossil fuel plants. He forces us to subsidize Enbridge, even though Enbridge makes billions of dollars in profit while worsening the climate crisis, while the rest of us get no help with the affordability crisis. Maybe it’s time to help PEOPLE and stop enriching the rich.

    This election is extremely important. My asks are simple: 1. Please vote, because turnout has been low the last few elections and Ford benefits from this. 2. Please vote Green, vote Jen Purdy, vote for affordability for all, healthcare and education, kindness not cruelty, and a viable future for all of us. Because we deserve nice things!

Contact us.

Do you have questions or comments? Ideas that can radically improve this great province of ours? Please fill in the form below, or email me at jennifer.purdy@greenparty.ca. Thank you!