Wawa will need to wait for Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre.
While Poilievre was supposed to attend a “Common Sense Rally” at 2:15 pm at 51 Broadway Avenue (the Legion Hall), Wawa Mayor Melanie Pilon’s informed JJAM FM News that Poilievre’s plane was unable to land at the Wawa Municipal Airport due to fog, instead landing at the Chapleau Airport - he’s now driving to Wawa from Chapleau.
That’s put him an estimated 1.5 hours behind schedule, which would suggest the rally will begin around 3:45 pm, though that’d currently up in the air.
This is part of a broader tour of Northern Ontario: Poilievre stopped in Fort Frances on Monday and is scheduled to visit Hearst this evening, before continuing over the next few days to Kirkland Lake, Sudbury, and finally Elliot Lake on Friday.
It also comes just a week after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made a 3-day stop in Northern Ontario, visiting Timmins, Cochrane, and Kirkland Lake.