Choosing Where to Run
Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign
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In Choosing Where to Run Nash examines how to choose where to run and to best channel your passion for activism into elected office. This chapter explores topics such as where to run, representing where you live or representing where you don’t live, doing your political homework, looking into voting history, and connecting to your community.
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Contributors
Peggy Nash
Peggy Nash is an advocate for labour rights and social justice in Canadian politics and the labour movement, as a long-time senior negotiator for the CAW (now Unifor). A former president of the federal New Democratic Party, she was a candidate for leader after the untimely death of Jack Layton. A candidate in several federal elections, she served as a Member of Parliament and was named Official Opposition Industry and Finance Critic. Nash is an educator, a frequent media commentator, a founding member of Equal Voice and a co-founder of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Women in the House program.
