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Meeting will select liberal candidate for Huron -Bruce
The Huron -Bruce (Fed-
eral) Liberal Association
announced recently that
they will be holding a
nomination meeting to
select the Liberal candi-
date for Huron -Bruce on
Monday, October 20, 2014
at 6:30 PM at the Lucknow
Community Centre, 694
Willoughby Street, Luc -
know, Ontario, NOG 2H0.
Speeches will start at
6:30 PM and voting will
follow. Voting closes at
8:30 PM.
Allan Thompson and Dr.
Maarten Bokhout are the
two nomination candi-
dates vying for the posi-
tion of Liberal Candidate.
Allan Thompson was
born and raised in the vil-
lage of Glammis in south-
ern Bruce County, where
his parents Ron and Elea-
nor Thompson ran a mixed
farm. He went to school at
Bruce Township Central
Public in Underwood and
Walkerton District Second-
ary School. He went on to
study journalism at Carle-
ton University in Ottawa
before completing his Mas-
ters degree in International
Dr. Maarten Bokhout
Relations at the University
of Kent at Canterbury, Eng-
land. After working at the
Kincardine Independent
and the Teeswater News, he
became a journalist for the
Toronto Star newspaper
and covered Parliament
Hill from 1994 to 2003, at
which time he was offered a
position as a professor in
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Carleton's School of Jour-
nalism and Communica-
tion. An expert in Canada's
immigration policy, Allan
wrote a column in the Sat-
urday Star on this subject
for 15 years. Allan is the
author of The Media and
the Rwanda Genocide and
co-author of The Canadian
Reporter, the standard
Allan Thompson
journalism text for Cana-
dian journalism students.
Allan, is married to Roula
El-Rifai, who works for the
International Development
Research Centre. Their son
Laith, 15, is heading into
Grade 10.
Dr. Maarten Bokhout
has lived and worked as a
physician in Huron
County since 1987. He has
been site chief of Clinton
Public Hospital for the
past four years and he is
the acting Medical Officer
of Health for the County of
Huron. Dr. Bokhout also
delivers babies, teaches
medical students and resi-
dents as adjunct professor
of family medicine at the
University of Western
Ontario, is the medical
director of Huronlea
Home for the Aged in
Brussels and serves as one
of Huron County's coro-
ners. Upon completion of
his medical training at the
University of Toronto, he
worked for several years
as a physician and Medi-
cal Officer of Health in
Northern Newfoundland
and Labrador, and still
serves as a locum physi-
cian in St. Anthony, New-
found land on a regular
basis when needed. Since
2006, he has provided
financial and administra-
tive support to three
schools and a preschool in
Ng'Ombe Compound,
Lusaka, Zambia, enabling
about seven hundred chil-
dren who would otherwise
not be able to afford ele-
mentary and secondary
schooling to complete
their primary and second-
ary education. He cur-
rently resides near Blyth
on a 100 -acre farm. Pro-
ceeds from farming opera-
tions are donated to the
Canadian Food Grains
Bank. He is married and
has five grown children.
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