The Green Party candidate in the Ontario election in our riding says a combination of years of experience in health care as well as being a mother led her to seek office.
Fiona Jager is a Nursing professor at St. Lawrence College in Brockville and worked as a frontline nurse before that and she says caring for patients with mental illnesses and addictions made her see that the solutions to helping are political.
She says she’s also learned that the world her kids and other young people are growing up in is different than the one she came up in and she wants to pave the way and help deal with the things that are broken in our social fabric.
Jager says the Green Party is the right party to support because of its vision.
“It’s a forward thinking, responsible way of looking at the world that we are creating through policy and through government that I find is the most appealing from my perspective.”
Jager adds that she feels healthcare is the top issue facing Ontarians because it touches everyone.
She previously ran in the 2022 Ontario election in the Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes riding, finishing fourth
Jager is being opposed by PC candidate Steve Clark, Liberal Party candidate Lorna Jean Edmonds and NDP candidate Christopher Wilson.
Voters will head to the polls on Thursday, Feb. 27.
Moose FM will have extensive coverage of the election, and interviews with each of the candidates, during the campaign.
