Member of Parliament Niki Ashton is travelling our constituency in preparation for the next session of Parliament set to open next Monday.  She says it’s a chance for her to connect with communities about issues in the region.  She explains going back at the end of January she will be picking up on health care which is obviously a critical issue, it is provincial but it also is federal.  She says in order to build a better future in our north we need to be working with communities, with First Nations that are already pursuing a number of initiatives, we need to be supporting education and training in the north and we need to be making sure that good jobs stay in our north and that’s something where the federal government has a role to play.

Ashton urges people in the constituency to contact her office to discuss issues in our region that need to be addressed.