TA Bargaining Team Candidates' Statements- Sep.11th, 2017

From the office of the Chief Returning Officer of PSAC Local 610

The bargaining team elections are on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, in Arthur & Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building, HSB 236 starting at 4:30PM.

Here is the list of Nominees in alphabetical order that we have received so far:

Matthew Coady 

Nadezda Ivanova

Vanessa Lilly 

Dmitrii Marin 

Please click here for the Nominated Candidate Statements.

Please note that the nomination period is still open for any member who is in good standing with PSAC. All nominations must be received at the email

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OR nominations can be proposed on the floor at the elections on September 12, 2017. Please note that since the statements deadlines has  passed, new Nomination statements will not be received or dispersed to membership anymore. However, as candidates names are received each day, they will be updated regularly by noon of the following day on the Local website.

The campaigning period of one week began at 4:00pm September 5, 2017 and ends at 4:00pm September 12, 2017. Any campaigning outside of the campaign period may result in disqualification.

Campaigning regulations according to the Bylaws section 12.5:

12.5.1 no candidate may engage in mass electronic mailing of any kind, including but not limited to list-serve or recipient lists of more than five (5) persons; 

12.5.2 social networking (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, et al.) shall be permitted; 

12.5.3 no money is permitted to be spent on any electronic media; 

12.5.4 each candidate shall be permitted to distribute a one page mail-out, subject to the limitations outlined by the Chief Returning Officer, that shall be distributed to the membership by the External Communications Chair one week prior to the commencement of the elections; 

12.5.5 the campaign period shall begin one week prior to the election; 

12.5.6 no campaigning materials shall be circulated once a General Meeting for elections has begun.

Election Process:

1. Registration opens at 4:00pm 

2. Meeting starts at 4:30pm 

3. Nominations for each position, whether filed previously or nominated from the floor, followed by 3 minute presentations and 2 minutes question period by each candidate: 

4. Using visual aids for presentations, such as PowerPoint, are allowed. However, candidates must take full responsibility of using them, and be within their speech time-frame. The speech time-frame is 3 minutes. Candidates must be ready to use substitute means of presentation or speech in case there is a technical problem. 

5. Voting begins. No one can enter or leave the meeting room during voting. 

7. Ballots are counted and the elected bargaining team members are announced to the members.