Green Party of Canada candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election
This is a list of nominated candidates for the Green Party of Canada in the 40th Canadian federal election. Candidates ran in all but five ridings: Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, Jonquière—Alma, Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Sherbrooke.
[Newfoundland and Labrador] - 7 seats
[Prince Edward Island] - 4 seats
[Nova Scotia] - 11 seats
[New Brunswick] - 10 seats
[Quebec] - 75 seats
[Ontario] - 106 seats
| Riding | Candidate | Notes | Gender | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
| Ajax—Pickering | Mikhel Harilaid | M | 3,543 | |||||
| Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing | Lorraine Rekmans | F | 1,451 | |||||
| Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale | Peter Ormond | M | 5,149 | |||||
| Barrie | Erich Jacoby-Hawkins | M | 5,921 | |||||
| Beaches—East York | Zoran Markovski | M | 4,389 | |||||
| Bramalea—Gore—Malton | Mark Pajot | M | 2,551 | |||||
| Brampton—Springdale | Dave Finlay | M | 3,516 | |||||
| Brampton West | Patti Chmelyk | F | Healthcare Administrator | 3,329 | ||||
| Brant | Nora Fueten | F | 3,805 | |||||
| Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound | Dick Hibma | M | 13,095 | |||||
| Burlington | Marnie Mellish | F | 4,083 | |||||
| Cambridge | Scott Cosman | M | 4,279 | |||||
| Carleton—Mississippi Mills | Jake Cole | M | 6,983 | |||||
| Chatham-Kent—Essex | Alina Abbott | F | 2,712 | |||||
| Davenport | Wayne Scott | M | 3,655 | |||||
| Don Valley East | Wayne Clements | M | 2,618 | |||||
| Don Valley West | Georgina Wilcock | F | 3,155 | |||||
| Dufferin—Caledon | Ard Van Leeuwen | M | 7,377 | |||||
| Durham | Stephen Leahy | M | 6,041 | |||||
| Eglinton—Lawrence | Andrew James | M | 3,629 | |||||
| Elgin—Middlesex—London | Noel Burgon | M | 3,241 | |||||
| Essex | Richard Bachynsky | Richard Bachynsky is an environmentalist, writer, and consultant. Richard has been active in environmental interests since the mid-1980s, when he began to travel as a consultant. He was to see the complete disregard for environmental issues evident in both developing countries and North America. Richard was born and raised in the Windsor area, and has seen the rapid decline of the region in terms of jobs, environmental issues, and health related issues. With the failure of recent members of Parliament to attract new industry, improve the environment, or create better infrastructure, members of the community are motivated for change. A region rich in agriculture, industry, and resources, it is inconceivable – but true – that the region has one of Canada's highest unemployment rates. The residents of the region are being shortchanged, and need better federal support for job creation, tourism promotion, small business assistance, health care, and seniors. Active in finance, Richard has worked towards establishing new green industries including tire and industrial waste rubber recycling, biodiesel fuel plants, and alternative energy development worldwide. He also has extensive experience in real estate management and financing, and has served as a consultant for numerous firms completing projects both in Canada, and internationally. He currently holds of the position of Vice President International Sales and Finance for GreenShift Corporation, NY, NY USA, is Head of Export Finance Department, Roberts &Schaefer Engineering and Construction, USA., Finance Dir for Alternativa Corporation, Ukraine and is a Broker for Argentum Mortgages Toronto, and a consultant for Bachynsky Group, Bachynsky Realty Inc., and Bachynsky Mortgage Corporation, Windsor. Richard holds an MBA and is certified as a mortgage broker in Ontario. He is a member of the Board of the Amherstburg Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he was a member of parent and teacher association of F.J. Brennan High School in Windsor, and of the OMBA. In addition, he was active as a coach for minor hockey for the Windsor Minor Hockey Association, Riverside Hockey Association, and the Patterson Chiefs Hockey Program. Richard is the parent of 3 teenagers Erik, Laura, and Daniel. Richard Bachynsky was the candidate for the Green Party of Canada for the Federal election of 2008. Richard Bachynsky is currently the nominated candidate for the Green Party of Canada for the riding of Windsor-Tecumseh. | M | 2,234 | ||||
| Etobicoke Centre | Marion Schaffer | M | 2,688 | |||||
| Etobicoke—Lakeshore | David Corail | M | 3,562 | |||||
| Etobicoke North | Nigel Barriffe | M | 1,460 | |||||
| Glengarry—Prescott—Russell | Sylvie Lemieux | F | ||||||
| Guelph | Mike Nagy | M | ||||||
| Haldimand—Norfolk | Stephana Johnston | F | ||||||
| Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock | Michael Bell | Michael Bell owns a publishing company, and has published The Wire and The Green Zine. He is also a singer-songwriter and has worked with the Peterborough Food Bank, Peterborough Flood Relief, World Vision, the United Way and Amnesty International. He has spent the majority of his life in Peterborough, although he says he became involved with the environmental movement while living in Australia between 2006 and 2008. He initially sought the Green Party nomination for Peterborough in the buildup to the 2008 election, but either withdrew from the contest or was defeated by rival candidate Emily Berrigan. Running in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, he limited his election expenses to only two dollars in 2008. He received 4,505 votes, finishing fourth against Conservative incumbent Barry Devolin. | M | Publisher, Singer/songwriter | ||||
| Halton | Amy Collard | F | ||||||
| Hamilton Centre | John Livingstone | M | ||||||
| Hamilton East—Stoney Creek | Dave Hart Dyke | M | ||||||
| Hamilton Mountain | Stephen Brotherston | M | ||||||
| Huron—Bruce | Glen Smith | M | ||||||
| Kenora | Jo Jo Holiday | F | ||||||
| Kingston and the Islands | Eric Walton | M | ||||||
| Kitchener Centre | John Bithell | M | ||||||
| Kitchener—Conestoga | Jamie Kropf | M | ||||||
| Kitchener—Waterloo | Cathy MacLellan | F | ||||||
| Lambton—Kent—Middlesex | Jim Johnston | M | ||||||
| Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington | Chris Walker | M | ||||||
| Leeds—Grenville | Jeanie Warnock | F | ||||||
| London—Fanshawe | Daniel O'Neail | M | ||||||
| London North Centre | Mary Ann Hodge | F | ||||||
| London West | Monica Jarabek | F | ||||||
| Markham—Unionville | Leonard Aitken | M | ||||||
| Mississauga—Brampton South | Grace Yogaretnam | F | ||||||
| Mississauga East—Cooksville | Jaymini Bhikha | M | ||||||
| Mississauga—Erindale | Richard Pietro | M | ||||||
| Mississauga South | Richard Laushway | M | ||||||
| Mississauga—Streetsville | Otto Casanova | M | ||||||
| Nepean—Carleton | Lori Gadzala | F | ||||||
| Newmarket—Aurora | Glenn Hubbers | M | ||||||
| Niagara Falls | Shawn Willick | M | ||||||
| Niagara West—Glanbrook | Sid Frere | M | ||||||
| Nickel Belt | Frederick Twilley | M | ||||||
| Nipissing—Timiskaming | Craig Bridges | M | ||||||
| Northumberland—Quinte West | Ralph Torrie | M | ||||||
| Oak Ridges—Markham | Richard Taylor | M | ||||||
| Oakville | Blake Poland | M | ||||||
| Oshawa | Pat Gostlin | Pat Gostlin was a retired teacher. She was killed in a car accident involving a suspected drunk driver on 26 October 2008, less than two weeks following the election. | F | retired teacher | ||||
| Ottawa Centre | Jen Hunter | Hunter has been an executive member of Equal Voice National Capital Chapter, has led an annual international Team Learning Adventure, was co-leader of a women's leadership event in Toronto, and was the first international board member for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. She is also the founder of the Learning Catalyst. Hunter attended Queen's University, where she received her honours degree in political studies. Hunter chose to run for office in order to increase the number of women running. She believes in giving more federal money to cities, and in income splitting. | F | |||||
| Ottawa—Orléans | Paul Maillet | M | ||||||
| Ottawa South | Qais Ghanem | M | ||||||
| Ottawa—Vanier | Akbar Manoussi | M | ||||||
| Ottawa West—Nepean | Frances Coates | F | ||||||
| Oxford | Cathy Mott | F | ||||||
| Parkdale—High Park | Robert L. Rishchynski | M | ||||||
| Parry Sound-Muskoka | Glen Hodgson | Glen Hodgson was raised in Orillia. He has a bachelor's degree in English and Environmental Studies from Trent University and a Bachelor of Education degree from Queen's University. A high school teacher by profession, he is also a newspaper columnist and has served on the West Parry Sound District Museum and the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve. Hodgson joined the Green Party while attending Trent in the early 1990s, and has run for the party in four federal elections and one provincial election. He was nominated as the party's candidate for Parry Sound—Muskoka in the 2011 federal election. He briefly joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1998 to support David Orchard's leadership bid. He criticized the heightened security at the 2010 G8 summit in Huntsville and the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto, and said that he would protest peacefully at the "People First! We Deserve Better" rally. | M | High school Teacher, Columnist | ||||
| Perth Wellington | John Cowling | M | ||||||
| Peterborough | Emily Berrigan | Emily was twenty-one years old at the time of the election. She became active with the Green Party while attending high school in Port Hope, Ontario, and later worked for eight months at party headquarters in Ottawa. During the election, she noted that she was from a working class background. She received 4,029 votes, finishing fourth against Conservative incumbent Dean Del Mastro. She later moved to Toronto and became project manager for a non-governmental organization. Berrigan was one of several people arrested on 26 June 2010, at the G20 Toronto protests. After taking part in non-violent protests, and wandering the streets in observation, she and a group of friends returned to Queen's Park in the evening for their bicycles. She was arrested while standing in the designated protest zone and taken to a detention centre, where she was kept in a small cage that was exposed to pepper spray and not given food or water for eight hours. She was released the next day, after being charged with obstruction and unlawful demonstration. Berrigan has described her arrest as "completely unacceptable" and the arrest conditions as "inhumane." | F | |||||
| Pickering—Scarborough East | Jason Becevello | M | ||||||
| Prince Edward—Hastings | Alan Coxwell | M | ||||||
| Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke | Ben Hoffman | M | ||||||
| Richmond Hill | Dylan Marando | M | ||||||
| St. Catharines | Jim Fannon | M | ||||||
| St. Paul's | Justin Erdman | M | ||||||
| Sarnia—Lambton | Alan McKeown | M | ||||||
| Sault Ste. Marie | Luke Macmichael | M | ||||||
| Scarborough—Agincourt | Adrian Molder | M | ||||||
| Scarborough Centre | Ella Ng | F | ||||||
| Scarborough-Guildwood | Alonzo Bartley | M | ||||||
| Scarborough—Rouge River | Attila Nagy | M | ||||||
| Scarborough Southwest | Stefan Dixon | M | ||||||
| Simcoe—Grey | Peter Ellis | M | ||||||
| Simcoe North | Valerie Powell | F | ||||||
| Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry | David Rawnsley | M | ||||||
| Sudbury | Gordon Harris | Gordon has been a sales and marketing manager and a publisher. He moved to Sudbury in 2002 and became president of the Sudbury Arts Council in 2007. Before joining the Green Party, he worked on election campaigns for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the Liberal Party of Canada. He aligned with the Greens in the 2003 provincial election, and has served on the party's provincial executive. In the 2008 election, Harris said that he was not aligned with either a right-wing or left-wing ideology. He received 3,330 votes, finishing fourth against New Democratic Party candidate Glenn Thibeault. He planned to seek the party's nomination again for the 2011 federal election, but later withdrew. | M | Arts Council Board Executive | ||||
| Thornhill | Norbert Koehl | M | ||||||
| Thunder Bay—Rainy River | Russ Aegard | M | ||||||
| Thunder Bay—Superior North | Brendan Hughes | M | ||||||
| Timmins-James Bay | Larry Verner | M | ||||||
| Toronto Centre | Ellen Michelson | F | ||||||
| Toronto—Danforth | Sharon Howarth | F | ||||||
| Trinity—Spadina | Stephen LaFrenie | M | ||||||
| Vaughan | Adrian Visentin | M | ||||||
| Welland | Jennifer Mooradian | F | ||||||
| Wellington—Halton Hills | Brent Bouteiller | M | ||||||
| Whitby—Oshawa | Doug Anderson | M | ||||||
| Willowdale | Lou Carcasole | M | ||||||
| Windsor—Tecumseh | Kyle Prestanski | M | ||||||
| Windsor West | John Esposito | M | ||||||
| York Centre | Rosemary Frei | F | ||||||
| York—Simcoe | John Dewar | M | ||||||
| York South—Weston | Andre Papadimitriou | M | ||||||
| York West | Nick Capra | M |