There was common ground among the participants in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound’s first all-candidates meeting of the 2008 federal election campaign.
Partisanship was also evident in the proceedings Thursday night at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound.

There were a number of instances Thursday when the candidates were on the same page. Noble and Hibma agreed that the return of rail service to the area is something long overdue. “Good ideas have no colour,” Hibma told Noble. “We’ll work together on that one.”

The federal election campaign for the Bruce Grey Owen Sound riding is in full swing. It was standing room only at the Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound. Many residents were able to ask questions on the several issues facing our nation from: the economy to health care to the environment.

Green Party Candidate Dick Hibma he feels the public will be looking at
which candidate is the best leader to represent their riding.

Hibma says it's time for the politicians to take the great ideas from the riding and make them happen.

First Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound all-candidates meeting set for Thursday night

Some parties seek out candidates that are on fire but 100 Greens in Ontario's Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound riding just nominated one that is radioactive. Dick Hibma, a three term Owen Sound city councilor and chairman of Conservation Ontario also happens to be an employee of Bruce (Nuclear) Power.
Hibma said that his job at a nuclear plant may trouble some party members but I believe the issue is much bigger than that. His nomination goes to the fundamental nature of our party, especially considering that he beat out a more conventional Green candidate who walked the talk.

The Green Party of Canada today released its complete election platform, a plan that looks forward to an equitable society with a thriving, clean economy.

The plan, fully costed by an independent economist, focuses on the Green Tax Shift, which will use money from taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and toxic pollutants - the things we don't want - and use the money to support what we do want, such as good jobs, tax cuts for individuals and businesses, poverty reduction, and measures to help companies lead Canada into the post-carbon economy

The Green Party candidate for Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound is out with a new challenge.
Dick Hibma has announced he will purchase carbon offsets for the five tonnes of carbon he predicts he will generate during this federal election campaign.
And Hibma says he's challenging other candidates in the riding to acknowledge that something needs to be done to minimize their carbon footprint.

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Dick Hibma, local Green Party candidate, visited Meaford last week to speak to voters and Green Party supporters before the upcoming election.

Green party candidate Dick Hibma officially opened a downtown campaign office Monday, vowing to use the party's growing momentum in the Bruce-Grey- Owen Sound riding to get elected.
"There is an enormous appetite for Green party policies in this riding. I think we can make some very serious inroads and win this riding," Hibma said shortly after using gardening shears to cut a green, hand-woven ribbon made of common reed, an invasive plant taken from the Kelso Beach area.
"Realistically I think I have a very good chance (of getting elected).