Municipal Election Candidates - Fort McMurray

These are the questions we sent candidates for Mayor and Council

1. Will you oppose privatization of municipal services and infrastructure, including Public-Private-Partnerships aka P3s? Will you support bringing previously privatized services in-house?
2. Will you support your employees and your community by ensuring the municipality employs staff with living wages, full-time hours where desired, job security, and collective bargaining rights?
3. Will you oppose attempts from the provincial government to legislate against municipal staff including cuts to the Local Authorities Pension Plan, or restrictions on their right to strike?
4. How do you propose your municipality deal with funding shortfalls, cuts, and downloading of responsibilities from federal and provincial governments? Do you favour spending cuts over tax increases?
5. Do you support measures such as mask mandates, vaccine “passports”, and vaccine mandates for staff to limit and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in your municipality?
6. Do you support measures to reduce municipal reliance on services fees and fares, such as eliminating transit fares?

These are the questions we sent candidates for Public and Catholic School Board

1. Do you agree with calls to scrap the draft curriculum and start over to develop a curriculum that is accurate in capturing Alberta’s colonial history, diverse present, and modernized to reflect the world we live in?
2. Do you believe the current education funding formula is sufficient for your district? If not, how will you work to convince the province to provide sustainable and adequate funding?
3. Will you oppose privatization of school services and infrastructure, including Public-Private-Partnerships aka P3s? Will you support bringing previously privatized services in-house?
4. Will you support your employees and your community by ensuring the school board employs staff with living wages, full-time hours where desired, job security, and collective bargaining rights? 
5. Will you oppose attempts from the provincial government to legislate against school staff including cuts to the Local Authorities Pension Plan, or restrictions on their right to strike?
6. Do you support measures such as mask mandates, and vaccine mandates for staff to limit and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in your schools?

Mayor

Sandy Bowman

1. A
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. D
6. B

Read Bowman's full response here.

Unfortunately, the other candidates for Mayor did not respond to our survey and there was not enough public information about their platforms to grade them on the issues that matter to AUPE members.

Ward 1

Funky Banjoko

1. F
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. B+

Read Banjoko's full response here.

IJ Uche-Ezeala

1. F
2. B-
3. B
4. D-
5. D
6. D

Read Uche-Ezeala's full response here.

Gareth Norris

1. B
2. A
3. B
4. B-
5. D+
6. B

Read Norris' full response here.

Dale Leo Bendfel

1. A+
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. D
6. A

Read Bendfel's full response here.

Sulaiman Zaid

1. D
2. B-
3. B-
4. D+
5. D
6. D

Read Zaid's full response here.

Rene Wells

1. D-
2. D
3. D
4. D
5. D-
6. B

Read Wells' full response here.

Lance Bussieres

1. A-
2. B
3. D
4. B-
5. D
6. A

Read Bussieres' full response here.

Garth Hewitt

1. F
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. F
6. B

Read Hewitt's full response here.

Michelle Landsiedel

1. D
2. D+
3. D
4. D
5. B+
6. D

Read Landsiedel's full response here.

Unfortunately, the other candidates for Ward 1 did not respond to our survey and there was not enough public information about their platforms to grade them on the issues that matter to AUPE members.

Ward 2

Unfortunately, the candidates for Ward 2 did not respond to our survey and there was not enough public information about their platforms to grade them on the issues that matter to AUPE members.

Ward 3

Unfortunately, the candidates for Ward 3 did not respond to our survey and there was not enough public information about their platforms to grade them on the issues that matter to AUPE members.

Public Schools

Linda Mywaart

1. B
2. B-
3. D
4. B-
5. B-
6. D

Read Mywaart's full response here.

Imam Nazir

1. C
2. C+
3. C
4. C
5. C
6. C

Read Nazir's full response here.

Philip Osborne

1. F
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. F-

Read Osborne's full response here.

Jonathan Lambert

1. A
2. A
3. A-
4. B
5. B
6. B

Read Lambert's full response here.

Malcolm Setter

1. B
2. B
3. F
4. F
5. F
6. F

Read Setter's full response here.

Dur-E-Naiaf Syed

1. A
2. A
3. B
4. B
5. A
6. B-

Read Syed's full response here.

Jason Schulz

1. D-
2. B
3. D
4. B
5. B
6. B-

Read Schulz's full response here.

Taral Mehta

1. B
2. B+
3. D-
4. D
5. B+
6. D-

Read Mehta's full response here.

Uno Monofi

1. B
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. F

Read Monofi's full response here.

Angela Adams

1. B
2. B
3. B
4. C+
5. B+
6. F

Lorna Spargo

1. D
2. F
3. D
4. D
5. D
6. D

Unfortunately, the other candidates for public school trustee did not respond to our survey and there was not enough public information about their platforms to grade them on the issues that matter to AUPE members.

Catholic Schools

Cathie Langmead

1. C
2. B
3. D
4. B
5. B
6. A

Read Langmead's full response here.

Anthony Hoffman

1. B
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. F

Read Hoffman's full response here.

Jonathan Higdon

1. B
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. B
6. F

Read Higdon's full response here.

Unfortunately, the other candidates for Catholic school trustee did not respond to our survey and there was not enough public information about their platforms to grade them on the issues that matter to AUPE members.