A wise teenager beyond his age will lead the Liberals in Salt in the provincial elections in June. Meanwhile, lawyer Naomi Sayers confirms that she is running as an independent.
Sault Ste. Marie finally has a Liberal candidate running in the June 2nd provincial election, local party loyalists were advised Monday night.
“Only one nominee has met all the submission requirements and deadlines set out in the approved Sault Ste nomination plan. Marie, “said Mike Cavanaugh, field manager of the Ontario Liberal Party, and Jordan Hudima, vice president of the party’s northern region. email to party members.
Cavanaugh and Hudima continued: “Accordingly, Aidan Kalioinen will be recognized as the candidate of the Liberal Party of Ontario in the constituency of Sol Saint-Marie” at an online nomination meeting held on Monday night with only 16 minutes notice to local members.
More information about the candidate was not provided by the party.
SooToday failed to contact Kallioinen overnight, but he appears to be an articulate, politically savvy teenager who was recently an 11th grader at Lo-Ellen Park High School in Sudbury last year.
Kallioinen writes about politics for thecanadianidea.ca, a news site run by young people.
He also appeared as a liberal youth panel on the Sirius XM Canada Talks channel.
“I’ve always been interested in other people’s perspectives and I think politics as a career is really rewarding in that regard,” he told Sirius presenter Dalia Kurtz last year.
“I think politics is the most direct way to change people’s lives. I’ve always been interested in the world’s problems and the things that are happening around us. “
“As I got older, I learned how much of our daily world is political and how much it influences the decisions we make.
Kalioinen says his mother was initially “scared to death” when he took an interest in politics, but his parents were generally positive about his career choice.
His father, Paul Kalioinen, introduced Aiden to politicians, including Brent Saint-Denis, a former MP at Kalioinen’s home who drives Algoma-Manitulin-Kapuskasing.
The teen politician says he even persuaded Robert Fife, head of Queen’s Park’s Globe and Mail bureau, to give him press credentials and tour Ontario’s legislature a few years ago.
Aidan’s decision to propose for Sault Ste. Marie’s nomination is a last-minute thing, according to his father.
Paul Kalioinen says he mentioned to his son yesterday about the lack of a Sault candidate.
Aiden decided to look into it and talk to Tim Wine, the current Liberal candidate in Algoma-Manitulin.
Shortly after 8 pm last night, Aiden learned that the deal was made and he would carry the Liberal flag in next month’s election.
Paul also told us that his son was accepted to Carlton University in Ottawa and is majoring in political science and journalism.
The youngest politician ever elected to the Ontario legislature is Niagara West MP Sam Osterhoff, who was 19 when he was elected in a 2016 by-election.
Previously, the record was held by the MPP of the Cooperative Federation of the British Community named Reed Scott, who was 21 years old when he was elected in 1948.
Meanwhile, Sault Ste. Marie’s lawyer, Naomi Sayers, confirmed in a post on social media on Monday night that she would run as an independent candidate.
Sayers told SooToday’s James Hopkin last week that her candidacy to become a local liberal candidate had been rejected by party officials due to concerns about her work on social media and other issues.
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