Overview

• The Edmonton–Strathcona MP formally kicked off her campaign in her home riding with a call to bring the party together and to meet voters where they are.
• She urged a shift in party messaging and pressed for more resources for grassroots organizing over backroom strategy.
• Her priorities include fair wages that track the cost of living, affordable housing, lower grocery prices, and strong public health care and education.
• Drawing on her role as foreign-affairs critic, she referenced work on Ukraine and Palestine and pledged to condemn genocide wherever it occurs.
• She enters a field that includes activist Avi Lewis, with Rob Ashton and Yves Engler listed as candidates, after Jagmeet Singh’s resignation following the April election.