Clinton News Record, 2014-10-29, Page 66 News Record • Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Glammis native Allan Thompson wins federal Liberal
nomination in Huron -Bruce
QMI Agency
Glammis native Allan
Thompson will be the Huron -
Bruce Liberal candidate in the
next federal election.
More than 500 ballots were
cast by members of the Liberal
riding association at the Luc -
know Community Centre on
Oct. 20, 2014, with Thompson
beating out fellow nominee
Maarten Bokhout of Clinton.
"I feel great," Thompson said
after the announcement he had
won. "It feels great to see 500
Liberals in a room getting ready
for the 2015 election."
Thompson took the stage
after his victorywas announced
to address the large crowd that
had stayed to witness the
results.
"Welcome to the first day of
the 2015 election campaign," he
said.
Thompson said he may take
a daypost-victoryas a breather,
but looked forward to building
his team across the riding.
"I want to get the (Liberal)
partyback to where it belongs,"
he said, and, borrowing a
phrase from his late father, Ron
Thompson, said it was time to
"buckle in!'
Born and raised on a farm in
Glammis, Thompson has stud-
ied journalism at Carleton Uni-
versity in Ottawa, and earned
his masters degree in Interna-
tional Relations at the Univer-
sity of Kent in England.
He began his career in jour-
nalism as a reporter with the
Kincardine Independent and
Teeswater News before joining
the Toronto Star and covering
Parliament Hill from 1994 to
2003. He has since worked as a
professor in Carleton's School
of Journalism and
Communication.
"I worked for a decade as a
political reporter on Parliament
Hill and those 10 years taught
me a lot about national politics
and the role of a good member
of Parliament;" Thompson said
in his speech.
Thompson said he had been
contemplating getting into poli-
tics for a while, and that he had
Thompson celebrates with wife Roula EI-Rifai and their son Laith.
always known he wanted to do
that in Huron -Bruce.
"I believe strongly that you
have to have a deep connection
to the people you represent," he
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said. "For me, that connection
is here. They say that home is
where the heart is, and my
heart has always been in
Glammis"
Since putting his name for-
ward in July Thompson has
travelled the riding, connecting
with voters at church suppers,
plowing matches, fall fairs and
other community events.
Thompson said he decided
to get into politics "to take a
stand against what I believe is
the worst government and the
worst prime minister Canada
has seen in decades!'
Speaking to reporters after
the event, Thompson said he
sees Stephen Harper's Con-
servative Party as posing
"challenges to the pillars of
Canada's democracy!'
"I worry that people have
lost track of all the horrible
things that have been done,"
he said.
This concern prompted
him to put his name forward
and take a stand by entering
politics.
"I will do what I really,
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strongly, personally believe
has to be done," Thompson
said, expressing his desire to
get back to a positive and
hopeful place in Canadian
government.
Thompson said he has spo-
ken to many people across the
political spectrum who have
given him the sense that there
is an interest in change.
"It's quite a strong senti-
ment, and it's not just Liberal
partisans or NDP supporters,"
he said.
Thompson said he was sur-
prised by the number of Con-
servative supporters who
expressed an interested in his
campaign, including progres-
sive conservatives, who he
said are "essentially a home-
less party!'
"Stephen Harper is not their
party," he said.
He also reached out to NDP
supporters, saying that sup-
porting the Liberal Party in the
next federal election is a way
to defeat the Conservative
government.
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