Listen to BlackburnNews.com’s Adelle Loiselle for Five Questions With Tony Walsh.
[audio wav="http://blackburnnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/FIVE-QUESTIONS-WITH-TONY-WALSH-NDP-CKL.wav"][/audio] --- Growing up as one of five children, Tony Walsh had to work hard for everything he achieved. But as he built a career as a bank manager and successful small business owner, he never hesitated to give back.
As a community volunteer, Tony has lent his skills to Habitat for Humanity, helped annual fundraising drives for local Kinsmen clubs, and given his time to local food banks (since the age of 10). In 2011 Tony co-chaired the United Way of Chatham-Kent's annual fundraising campaign helping raise close to $1.9 million for the community programs. He has just finished seven years on the board of directors for the United Way of Chatham-Kent, and is a past president of the board. Tony’s work on the board of the Chatham-Kent Chamber of Commerce has helped strengthen our local economy. And as a past board chair of the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, he helped secure local environmental investment worth more than $150,000.
If elected Tony plans to:
- Launch Tom Mulcair’s plan for affordable childcare—pay no more than $15/day.
- Create good, middle-class jobs through hiring incentives for small businesses.
- Secure your retirement by protecting workplace pensions and growing the CPP.
- Work with communities to upgrade old roads, bridges and transportation systems.
- Riding was known as Kent-Essex in 1996, then Chatham-Kent-Essex in 1998 and now Chatham-Kent-Leamington
- Liberals secured the riding from 1997-2006, but Conservative Dave Van Kesteren has held the seat since then
- Riding includes Chatham-Kent south of the Thames River, Leamington and the Indian Reserve of Moravian 47
