SIOUX NARROWS — The Green Party of Canada is putting a new name on the ballot to stand for the party in the Kenora-Kiiwetinoong riding.
Jon Hobbs, a retired architect and planner who now lives near Sioux Narrows, will carry the party’s banner in the 2025 federal election. His biography on the Green Party’s website said he’s had an architecture practice in Peterborough and worked in the National Capital Region (Ottawa) where he was the executive director of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Since his retirement, according to the party, he has remained an environmental and climate change advocate by advocating for issues around recycling, single-use plastics and doing away with plastic packaging.
He now lives on Lake of the Woods in an efficient solar-powered house, the Green Party said, and owns an electric vehicle.
Federal Green Party press secretary Fabrice Lachance told Dougall Media that “some of our candidates run small campaigns, giving voters the opportunity to vote for the Green Party, but they don't have a media communications strategy.
“They won’t be speaking to the media during the course of the campaign,” he continued, adding that Hobbs is on that list.
So far, Hobbs is running against incumbent Conservative Eric Melillo, Tania Cameron of the NDP, Charles Fox of the Liberals, Bryce Desjarlais of the People’s Party of Canada and independent Kelvin Boucher-Chicago.
