Tri-City seniors who want to know where their candidates stand on issues affecting them can access information through the Tri-Cities Seniors Planning Network, a group of seniors, organizations and businesses that lobbies for an age-friendly community.
The organization sent four questions to the federal election candidates in both the Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam and Port Moody-Coquitlam ridings that focused on seniors' issues:
• How will you ensure all seniors have equal access to affordable and appropriate housing and food security?
• How will you ensure that all seniors have equal access to medical care and Pharmacare across Canada?
• What would you see as the key issues to include in a National Dementia Strategy?
• How will you ensure that future seniors have their needs met when they retire?
Responses received to date — from NDP Sara Norman and Green Party candidate Brad Nickason in Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam and from Liberal Jessie Adcock, Marcus Madsen of the Green Party and NDP Fin Donnelly in Port Moody-Coquitlam — have been posted on the Tri-Cities Seniors Planning Network website (www.volunteerconnections.net).
The group will continue to post responses as they are received.
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