Ignatieff, Layton stumping for Winnipeg North candidates
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The federal Liberals and New Democrats drew enthusiastic crowds to separate events in north Winnipeg this morning, and their messages on crime and safety were strikingly similar.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and New Democrat leader Jack Layton were stumping the riding of Winnipeg North with their candidates for the Nov. 29 by-election.
Ignatieff and candidate Kevin Lamoureux played to the larger crowd — about 300 people in a small banquet hall in the Maples — but Layton and candidate Kevin Chief drew an equally boisterous group into Chief’s even smaller campaign headquarters on McPhillips Street.
Both leaders referenced last weekend’s shooting spree, which left two men dead and a 13-year-old girl wounded, with similar sounding catch-phrases.
“Let’s be tough on crime but smart on solutions,” was the phrase Ignatieff repeated often during his speech to a crowd of about 300 Liberal supporters.
“Tough laws? Absolutely. Smart programs to help reduce crime? That’s what’s needed,” Layton told reporters after his speech.
The by-election was called to replace New Democrat Judy Wasylycia-Leis, who resigned her seat earlier this year in what turned out to be a losing effort to become mayor of Winnipeg.
Lamoureux is trading in his 18 years as a Liberal MLA on Broadway for a an opportunity to go to Ottawa.
Chief is a newcomer to politics. He works at the University of Winnipeg, where he is the coordinator of the Innovative Learning Centre and also the executive director of the Winnipeg Aboriginal Sport Achievement Centre.
Both candidates attracted the usual players from their own parties, but included among Chief’s supporters this morning was businessman Mark Chipman, chairman of the True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns the MTS Centre and the Manitoba Moose.
Chief singled out a smiling Chipman, who was standing at the back of the crowded room wearing a Manitoba Moose jacket, calling him a friend and supporter of his inner city youth projects.
“I wasn’t going to ask Mark for too many favours in this campaign because he’s such a close friend but in all honesty, I know I need his help if I want to win this,” Chief said. “I’m so glad you’re here, Mark.”
aldo.santin@freepress.mb.ca