Sheila Malcolmson

I am running for re-election because I love my community, love the coast, and want to keep fighting for it. After 16 years of BC Liberal cuts to services, schools, seniors care, and tax holidays for the wealthy and well connected, the NDP has been working hard to build BC back up.

We’ve made a lot of progress for Nanaimo the past three years – investing in childcare, care homes and the hospital here, for example. We’ve advanced reconciliation with Snuneymuxw First Nation.

There is still more to do and the BC NDP will keep supporting people through the recovery and address the gaps the pandemic has exposed, so we emerge more resilient than before.

This election is about who’s best to fight the pandemic, keep folks healthy and safe, and make sure the economy works for people.

When COVID hit, our BC NDP government took action to keep people safe and get them the help they needed. As we begin to recover, we need to create growth that raises the standard of living of everybody. While the BC Liberals continue to advocate for people at the top, we are working to create an economy where everyone can get ahead.

Already in Nanaimo the NDP has invested in hospital expansion, 1500+ affordable housing and childcare spaces, more teachers and school upgrades, and new tools to treat homelessness, mental illness and addiction.

This election is about making sure we continue to move BC forward, with a new medical school to train more family doctors, freezing rent, building a Nanaimo cancer centre, more affordable housing and safe long-term care homes, and adding thousands of new jobs in our CleanBC plan, to bring us to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

I bring a wealth of community experience to the table. Starting in 2002, I was elected to the Islands Trust for four consecutive terms. In 2008, I was elected Chair of the Islands Trust Council. As Chair of Islands Trust Council,

I worked with all levels of government, championing campaigns for fair ferry service, marine safety, and oil spill prevention. I signed a government-to-government protocol between the Snuneymuxw First Nation and the Islands Trust – establishing a relationship of respect and cooperation in planning, land use management, and heritage conservation.

In 2015 I was elected as federal MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith and on January 30, 2019, I was elected as the provincial MLA for Nanaimo. I hope to have the honour to continue in this role in a BC NDP government.

Sheila Malcolmson – BC NDP Candidate for Nanaimo.

BC NDP Candidate for Nanaimo

This article was originally publish in Island Woman Magazine,