{"id":25357,"date":"2022-09-30T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=25357"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:54:39","slug":"big-crowd-for-alfred-plantagenet-candidates-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribune-express.ca\/en\/politique\/big-crowd-for-alfred-plantagenet-candidates-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Big crowd for Alfred-Plantagenet candidates debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">The upper mezzanine meeting room was almost packed full of residents from both Wards 1 and 2 of Alfred-Plantagenet Township. Event organizer and chair Nathalie Duval expressed great satisfaction with the turnout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">&#8220;Very happy because more people turned up than I had expected,&#8221; Duval said, following the end of the active debate session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">Duval noted that most of the residents who attended the event were either older adults or seniors. She expressed regret that more younger voters didn\u2019t show up to listen to the candidates, despite efforts to promote the event through Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">The four mayoral candidates, Yves Laviolette, Chantal Gallipeau, Ren\u00e9 Beaulne, and Marc Prud\u2019homme, and the three Ward 2 candidates, Ian Walker, Antoni Viau, and \u00c9milie Ducharme, took turns explaining their position on several topics that included arts and culture promotion within the municipality, maintaining public library services, forests and the environment, taxes, water and sewer services, and roads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"04Corpsdetexte\"><span lang=\"FR-CA\">Before the start of the formal debate, Jean-Pierre Cadieux and Beno\u00eet Lamarche outlined their goals as the newly-acclaimed Ward 1 representative for next year\u2019s council.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a hundred people crowded into the Plantagenet Community Centre Thursday evening for the municipal election candidates debate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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