Grey Highlands councillor Joel Loughead will be the Green Party candidate for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound in the next provincial election.
Loughead secured the nomination for the Green Party at a nomination meeting held in Owen Sound on Dec. 16.
A first-term councillor in the Municipality of Grey Highlands and Kimberley-area resident, Loughead says he is running to protect his community’s green spaces, sensitive watersheds and world-class farmland from urban sprawl.
“I chose to run for the Greens because enough is enough. We deserve a local MPP who will genuinely work for the people of Grey and Bruce counties, not their party's big city corporate funders,” Loughead said in an email to CollingwoodToday after the nomination meeting. “Doug Ford and his PCs have shown time and again they will sell out farmland for urban sprawl, and protected parks, forests and irreplaceable watersheds for personal profit.”
Loughead will be running to replace current Progressive Conservative MPP Rick Byers, who announced in September that he would not be seeking reelection.
Loughead will be the second Grey Highlands councillor to carry the Green Party banner provincially in as many elections. Former councillor Danielle Valiquette was the Green candidate in the 2022 election.
“The Green Party is the only party honestly working to protect farmers, small towns, rural Ontario, and the healthy environment we all share. I'm excited to get to work for our communities, and keep Bruce Grey Owen Sound green,” Loughead said.
