Patricia Johnson-Castle New Democratic Candidate

03/27/2021

Congratulations to Lela! Very shocking voter turnout. I hope reform for Elections Act is the first thing on the menu in the House of Assembly.

03/21/2021

A qaggiq (immense igloo) was built in Iqaluit for the Qaggiq 2021 festival, which features artists from across Nunavut. Our ancestors built qagguit (plural of qaggiq) to be together and celebrate. We've always just been wanting to live our best lives, colonialism keeps harsh the vibes. I have been loving seeing how we Inuit are creatively keeping connected during the pandemic from the Iqaluit Qaggiq to our gathering in Nain last week ❤

03/18/2021

So amazing!! I love living in a community with go getters like Jenny to help us organize to feel close to each other even when we have to social distance 🎉🥳❤

03/16/2021

"I don't understand why this government has rushed this project so much." - Lorraine Michael (former leader of NL NDP) on Muskrat Falls in 2012

The NDP stood up to the PC Government trying to rush the Muskrat Falls project. The NDP have a history of holding governments to account. Every elected NDP official is another MHA

"So when I look at a project of this size, 9 billion dollars, and with these "ifs" that are out there, these hopes that are out there, I find it really hard to understand how they're not terrified. I am! It's not that I want it to fail, I hope for the sake of the people in this province, I hope for the sake of our being able to have programs that people need in this province, I hope for the sake of the people who are going to be paying much higher prices for electricity... I hope beyond hope that I'm going to be proven absolutely wrong. And that by 2020 please goodness somebody's going to be able to stay while Lorraine it worked out okay but at this moment the questions that I have are not just mine, they're not just the questions of the five of us who are elected in this house they are the questions of thousands of people they are the questions of experts out there."

Unfortunately, Lorraine was right. Too bad we didn't have an NDP government in 2012. Could have avoided Muskrat Falls all together!

Lorraine Michael during the 2012 filibuster on Muskrat Falls expressed her great concerns about the project. She said she hoped she was wrong.

03/16/2021

All votes in the House of Assembly happen along party lines. You might trust someone as a person, but does their political party stand for the same values as you? There are no candidates in Torngat Mountains running as an independent, so consider the political party when you're casting your vote.

03/16/2021

No one should be working 40 hrs a week and not be able to afford to pay their bills! The NDP are to have a better quality of life through our support for $15 minimum wage, home heating rebate, cap on electricity prices, and much more!

In NL, MHAs have to vote along party lines. Even if you trust someone as a person, do you trust the party they are running for 🤔🤔

03/16/2021

I offered to share my translations with the other parties if they pitched in on the translation costs never heard back from any except the NL Alliance Party. Since my campaign donations paid for the translation I am instead using the money to purchase bilingual Inuttitut-English books for the Nain Daycare, and supplies for the Mushau Innu School in Natuashish.