Brenda Rhodes, the executive director of the Bracebridge Chamber of Commerce, was nominated on March 28, 2018 as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate for Parry Sound–Muskoka. The nomination meeting was held at Tea Beards in Gravenhurst.
“It’s an honour to be nominated as the Ontario Liberal candidate for my home riding on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s team,” said Rhodes in a release posted on the riding association’s website. “I’m ready to fight for fairness, to ensure we deliver the care our community needs and to defend a progressive agenda to support workers with fair wages, to provide free tuition for nearly a quarter of a million students and to pioneer a free pharmacare program, first for youth and students, and soon for seniors.”
Rhodes ran unsuccessfully in the 2007 provincial election and lost to Progressive Conservative MP for this area, Norm Miller. As the executive director of the Bracebridge Chamber of Commerce, she has taken a leave of absence to work on her campaign. According to the release, Rhodes previously worked in a management role with the McGill University Faculty of Dentistry, overseeing an accreditation-review process and the building of a new, state-of-the-art facility. She also previously served as a political advisor to the Hon. Andy Mitchell, the former MP for Parry Sound–Muskoka, both in the constituency and in ministerial roles with the Ministry of Agriculture and the then-Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
She served as an advisor for the Bridges Out of Poverty committee of the YWCA and sits on the Muskoka Tourism Marketing Agency Board. She is a business mentor with Muskoka Futures and a local Rotarian. She received the local Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award and the Woman of Distinction Award. An athlete, she’s played on the Bracebridge-Gravenhurst Women’s Softball League, was MVP of the OCAA All-Star Game and the Female Athlete of the Year for Fanshawe College, where she earned a diploma in recreation and leadership and in public relations. She is a proud resident of Huntsville where she lives with her partner, Peter.
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Norm miller PC MPP is AFRAID of Questions by a riding voter ,I challenged Norm once again to a debate on how the PC plan TO STAVE OFF worker wages and statements on the party’s sick plan to require low wage workers would cost municipal tax payers into the no pension plan days . He refused debate a voter again!
After the way this area (as well as other rural areas) has been treated by the Ontario Liberal government, over the past six years, I wouldn’t be interested in supporting any kind of Liberal for public office–ever. The last straw for me, was the realization of just how much the McGinty–Wynne Liberals have politicized even as vital a service as healthcare. I trust that others here feel the same way.