91原创

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

Age: 65

Have you held office in past? If so, please specify: Seven consecutive terms as a councillor on 91原创 Township council (1999 to present)

Bio: Since 1993, Kim Richter has been a full-time business management instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU). Kim has also been elected as a 91原创 Township councillor for seven consecutive terms. She became a Metro Vancouver Regional board director in 2018.

Kim has a strong track record of serving her community along with deep roots in it. She was an elected faculty governor (KPU board), LMH hospital trustee, chair (South Fraser regional health board), chair (91原创鈥檚 community health council), director (91原创 Family Services), manager (Girls Soccer), and founding president (North Otter Performing Arts Association), to name just a few.

Kim has three degrees: a bachelor of art, bachelor of science and a masters in health administration from the University of Ottawa. She previously was a health care management consultant and a small business owner.

Kim and her husband, Bob, raised three amazing children in 91原创 Township. They have lived in 91原创 for 35 years.

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ELECTION QUESTIONS:

Each candidate for the Sept. 20, 2021 federal election has been provided with these five (5) questions, along with the following instructions.

To help voters make their choice on election day, the 91原创 Advance Times is asking local candidates a series of questions on issues of importance.

Each question MUST be answered: yes (Y), no (N), or (D) Don鈥檛 Know. This is not meant to make things difficult. But reality is that if you鈥檙e in the House you鈥檇 have to vote yes, no, or abstain. The bonus is that each candidate can expand on ANY or ALL of our questions with answers of up to 200 words each that will appear online.

Please note, that due to space limitations, only one of your answers will be included in the print edition of the 91原创 Advance Times on Sept. 16. You get to pick which one. So, you must CLEARLY indicate which expanded answer you want to see published in print. If you don鈥檛 specify, we will choose.

1. Would you support a federal vehicle tax based on CO2 emissions?

Richter: 鈥淵es鈥�

2. Does your party have a plan to fill the many staff vacancies in the RCMP?

Richter: 鈥淒on鈥檛 know鈥�

3. Would you support the federal government cancelling the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to fight climate change?

Richter: 鈥淵es. The decision to purchase a pipeline was not one that I supported, but then I was not part of the federal government that made this decision, nor privy to the national perspectives and economic realities behind it.

Climate change is real. If this past summer in B.C. has not convinced you, then nothing will.

The recent IPCC Report demonstrates how climate change is accelerating faster than predicted. Urgent action is needed now to protect the future of our shared planet, our children, and our grandchildren.

We need to get off the fossil fuel diet as quickly as possible. It鈥檚 killing us.

I support rapid transit to 91原创 and the Fraser Valley. I also support all the key planks in the Liberal Platform for a cleaner, greener future. These include:

鈥� Create green jobs in communities across Canada and across sectors.

鈥� Cut pollution in heavy industry; make sure the oil and gas sector is net-zero by 2050.

鈥� Boost clean and renewable power.

鈥� End plastic waste by 2030.

鈥� Protect more of our nature by creating ten new national parks.

Endorsed by former BC Green Party leader, Andrew Weaver (see https://www.facebook.com/744105346/videos/1482706582063544/), the Liberal鈥檚 Climate Action Plan is strong, realistic, and critical for the future.鈥�

4. Should Ottawa provide cash incentives to parents for fully vaccinating children, including vaccination against COVID, flu, measles, etc.?

Richter: 鈥淣o鈥�

5. Given our inability to make vaccines at the start of the pandemic, should Ottawa double its investment in research, science, and tech startups?

Richter: 鈥淵es鈥�

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