Green Party of Canada candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election


The Green Party of Canada ran a full slate of 308 candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election. Some of these candidates have separate biography pages; relevant information about other candidates may be found here.
The candidates are listed by province and riding name.

Prince Edward Island

Sharon Labchuk (Malpeque">Malpeque (electoral district)">Malpeque)

She previously ran for the Green Party in the 2004 federal election, also in Malpeque, but lost to Wayne Easter of the Liberal Party of Canada. Labchuk received 1,037 votes to Easter's 9,782.

Nova Scotia

Chris Milburn ([Sydney—Victoria])

Milburn is a physician. He was born in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and trained in emergency and family medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He held several medical positions in and around the Kingston area after graduating, including a stint as a clinic doctor in Lansdowne after the small community lost its previous doctor. Milburn is also a skilled athlete, and has participated in several triathlons. He was a member of the Kingston Whig-Standard's community editorial board in the late 1990s, and frequently contributed to its columns.
Milburn joined the Green Party shortly before the 2000 federal election, and campaigned in the Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands. He emphasized health issues, and wrote against the privatisation of prescription medicine. He received 2,652 votes, the best showing for a Green candidate outside of British Columbia. Milburn defeated Fred Perel to win the Green Party of Ontario nomination for Kingston and the Islands in the 2003 provincial election, but left for a job in New Brunswick shortly before the campaign.
At the time of the 2004 election, Milburn was a physician with the emergency unit at Cape Breton Regional Hospital. He had recently purchased the historic site of the old City Hospital, where he planned to build a "green" neighbourhood. He was 34 years old. He received 855 votes, finishing fourth.
As of 2005, Milburn is the GPC's Healthcare Advocate.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
2000 federalKingston and the IslandsGreen2,6525.185/5Peter Milliken, Liberal
2004 federalSydney—VictoriaGreen8554/6Mark Eyking, Liberal
2006 federalSydney—VictoriaGreen1,3364/4Mark Eyking, Liberal

Nick Wright (Halifax">Halifax (federal electoral district)">Halifax)

Nick Wright ran in the Halifax riding and received 1948 votes, 3.9% of the popular vote in a riding dominated by long-time NDP candidate Alexa McDonough.

Quebec

Adam Sommerfeld ([Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher])

Sommerfeld is both a young politician and a veteran environmental activist. While in high school, he started the LEAF organization and affiliated it with the Sierra Youth Coalition. He was also active with the OPIRG-affiliated group Enviro-Action while attending the University of Ottawa. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University in Montreal.
He joined the Green Party of Canada in 2000 at age eighteen, and campaigned under its banner in the 2000 federal election. The 2006 campaign was his third for the party.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
2000 federalOttawa—VanierGreen1,0832.255/9Mauril Bélanger, Liberal Party of Canada
2004 federalMount RoyalGreen1,0462.85/7Irwin Cotler, Liberal Party of Canada
2006 federalLongueuil—Pierre-BoucherGreen1,9954.05/6Caroline St-Hilaire, Bloc Québécois

Ontario

Beaches—East York">Beaches—East York (federal electoral district)">Beaches—East York: Jim Harris">Jim Harris (politician)">Jim Harris

Jim Harris was the leader of the Green Party of Canada.

Brampton—Springdale">Brampton—Springdale (federal electoral district)">Brampton—Springdale: Ian Raymond Chiocchio

Chiocchio holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Brock University, and completed a two-year management training program with a Fortune 500 company. He was assistant manager of the Brock University pub, and as of 2006 is the co-owner of a landscaping business. He received 1,853 votes, finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Ruby Dhalla.

Brant">Brant (electoral district)">Brant: Adam King

Adam King was born in London, Ontario. He spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Bangladesh, where his family worked for a Baptist non-governmental organization, and he became interested in social issues at an early age. King's family returned to Canada in 1999, and he later took a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from York University. He was twenty-three years old during the 2006 campaign.
King has also run for the Brantford city council. He served on the City of Brantford's heritage committee, planning department, and cultural network from 2006 to 2008, and in 2007 he started an ethical coffee chain.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
2006 federalBrantGreen2,7294.574/6Lloyd St. Amand, Liberal
2006 municipalBrantford, Council Ward Fiven/a7749.524/6Marguerite Ceschi-Smith and John K. Bradford

[Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound]: Shane Jolley

Shane Jolley ran the most successful Green Party campaign in the 2006 election.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
2006 federalBruce—Grey—Owen SoundGreen6,73512.91%3/4Larry Miller, Conservative

[Carleton—Mississippi Mills]: Jake Cole

Jake Cole has lived in Kanata with his wife and two children for over 28 years. He is an active member of the local community, volunteering with the Scouts Canada Kanata branch, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Earl of March Secondary School Parent's Council, and coaching community baseball, soccer and hockey.
Educated as a civil engineer in Ottawa, Jake has spent more than thirty years working as a public servant for the federal government. In that time, he has led the Canadian contingent on the International Energy Agency's projects in solar, wind, and renewable energy. He also led Canada's R-2000 Home Energy Program, created and led a unique health and well-being program for 11,000 federal employees and currently manages the Canadian Coast Guard's environmental program.
As a long-standing community member, Jake has been very active in a variety of campaigns and grass roots political movements. In 1990, Jake Cole helped form the first Green Party of Canada chapter in Kanata. Jake has been an active campaigner against cosmetic pesticides use on lawns and playing fields. Jake is the communication advisor for the Canadian Organic Growers. Jake made submissions to the Kirby and Romanow Health Commissions. Jake actively campaigns for health promotion programs.

Eglinton—Lawrence">Eglinton—Lawrence (federal electoral district)">Eglinton—Lawrence: Patrick Metzger

Metzger holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in French and English literature from the University of Western Ontario, and a Master of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business. He worked fifteen years in the banking and brokerage industry, including experience with Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong. After returning to Canada in 2001, he changed careers and became a writer and television producer. He received 2,520 votes, finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Joe Volpe.

[Etobicoke–Lakeshore]: Philip Ridge

Philip Ridge ran against Michael Ignatieff who later became the leader of the Liberal Party.
Philip comes from a diverse background of engineering and marketing and currently owns Ridge Energy Consultants Inc www.ridge.ca and The Energy Store www.theenergystore.ca
Philip successfully increased Green Party votes by a high percentage. His main thrust was educating the voters on the amount of toxins produced in the riding - the highest in Toronto.

Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock">Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock (federal electoral district)">Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock: Andy Harjula

Andy Harjula was born in Finland and moved to Ontario as a child. He has a diploma in forestry from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and a Master's Degree in forestry from Colorado State University. He moved to Cavan, Ontario, in 1988.
Harjula worked for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for twenty-seven years, accepting retirement when Mike Harris's government made cutbacks to the department. He has co-ordinated the establishment and operations of provincial parks and done landscape work. In 2006, he was a director of the Victoria Lands and Water Stewardship Council and the Otonbee Conservation Foundation. He was sixty-three years old when he was nominated as a Green Party candidate in 2005.
He was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and its antecedents before joining the Greens. Himself a gun owner, he supported the Canadian Firearms Registry in the 2006 election, saying "If are stolen I'd like returned."
After the 2006 federal election, Harjula said that he would not seek federal office again. He ran for a council seat in Cavan in 2006 and 2010, finishing a close second both times.
ElectionDivisionPartyVotes%PlaceWinner
2006 federalHaliburton—Kawartha Lakes—BrockGreen3,0175.024/4Barry Devolin, Conservative
2006 Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan municipalCouncil, Cavan Wardn/a61031.382/3Jim C. Chaplin
2010 Cavan-Monaghan municipalCouncil, Cavan Wardn/a74936.182/4Jim C. Chaplin