{"id":12335,"date":"2019-10-12T00:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2019-10-12T00:49:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:49:40","slug":"election2019-candidate-profile-get-to-know-green-partys-anthony-edmonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12335","title":{"rendered":"#Election2019 Candidate Profile: Get to know Green Party&#8217;s Anthony Edmonds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Edmonds is running in Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Anthony Edmonds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Community:<\/strong> Wellington<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Family:<\/strong> I live with my wife, Jillian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Profession:<\/strong> Aerospace Engineer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why are you running?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d\n like to do everything that I can to make sure that future generations \ncan live at least as well as we do. For me, that means fighting for an \naccountable government that won\u2019t hesitate to rise to challenges and \nrespond to needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you see as the top issue in your riding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\n doorsteps and at community events alike, constituents have made it \nclear to me that they are deeply concerned about climate change and the \nrising costs &#8211; both pocketbook costs and environmental costs &#8211; of fossil\n fuels. People across the country and around the world are growing more \nconcerned about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do you have a hidden talent?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve\n played drums in a few bands. I\u2019m not sure that qualifies as hidden, \nsince I\u2019ve played at the fire hall a number of times, but people are \noften surprised to learn that about me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is your hope for your riding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d\n love for our area to be on the cutting edge of an affordable clean \nenergy transition. We have ample potential for distributed renewable \ngeneration like rooftop solar to cut down on our power bills. We can use\n electric vehicles to save on fuel costs. We can retrofit buildings to \nslash heating bills. These things can be made accessible to all of us \nthrough federal leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to contact you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>anthonyedmonds.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>anthony.edmonds@greenparty.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>facebook.com\/Edmonds2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>twitter.com\/ALEdmonds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>902-293-1568<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonds is running in Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook Name: Anthony Edmonds Community: Wellington Family: I live with my wife, Jillian. Profession: Aerospace Engineer Why are you running? I\u2019d like to do everything that I can to make sure that future generations can live at least as well as we do. For me, that means fighting for an accountable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,685],"tags":[810,811,2,812,627],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-elections","tag-anthony-edmonds","tag-election-2019","tag-fall-river","tag-green-party-of-canada","tag-sackville-preston-chezzetcook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}