The executive director of the National Council of Indigenous Midwives will carry the NDP banner for a local riding in the next federal election.
Canada's NDP has announced Laura Mayer as their candidate for Sault Ste. Marie-Algoma, the revised riding that will include the namesake city as well as the Highway 17 corridor, including Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, and the north shore of Lake Huron to Elliot Lake.
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing NDP MP Carol Hughes - who represents part of the future riding - has already said she isn't running for re-election after about seventeen years as MP.
Aside from serving with the National Council of Indigenous Midwives, Mayer is described as "a dedicated leader and proud Anishinaabekwe from Mississauga First Nation, committed to strengthening Indigenous governance, advancing community-led solutions, and fighting for policies that uplift working people", who graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and is in her second term as a councillor for Mississauga First Nation - she's quoted as saying a key priority is health care accessibility, vowing to "fight to expand health care services in the North and ensure no-one is left behind".