the 1980s, she was a member of Concerned Citizens for Choice on Abortion. She received 1,946 votes (3.07%), finishing fourth against Canadian Alliance candidate Scott Reid. , Kiefer works as president of the NDP political staff union at the House of Commons of Canada. Early in 2005, she spearheaded a successful drive to give her union affiliate status as the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers' Union of Canada, Local 232 (Hill Times, 10–16 January 2005). Craig Parsons (Nepean—Carleton) Parsons holds a university degree in Political Science from Carleton University, and was a restaurant manager at the time of the 2000 campaign. He had previously campaigned for the New Democratic Party of Ontario in 1999. A canvasser for Friends of the Wolf and other environmental groups, Parsons received endorsements from local environmental groups during his provincial campaign (Ottawa Citizen, 4 June 1999). He was 30 years old in 1999 (Ottawa Citizen, 27 May 1999). He initially sought the Ottawa West—Nepean NDP nomination for the 1999 election, but lost to Alex Cullen (Ottawa Citizen, 5 October 1998 and 7 January 1999). Paul Chislett (Sudbury) Chislett was raised in a low-income family in Sudbury, and later became a labour leader in that city. He worked in telephone repair for Bell Canada, and was president of the Energy and Paperworkers Union Local 37 in the 1990s and 2000s (decade). He criticized the changes taking place in the telephone industry, noting that call centres were creating lower-wage jobs in the industry. Chislett also wrote pieces that criticized modern economic globalism, and called for urban planning in Sudbury to be based on citizen's needs. At his nomination meeting in 2000, Chislett endorsed the social democratic idea of wealth distribution. Chislett called for Sudbury workers to take actions toward a general strike in November 2000, in protest against the labour policies of provincial government of Mike Harris. He holds liberal views on social issues, and criticized Nickel Belt Member of Parliament (MP) Ray Bonin in 2003 for opposing same-sex marriage. He ran for Mel Hurtig's short-lived National Party in 1993, and has since been a New Democratic Party candidate at the provincial and federal levels. Chislett moved to Windsor in 2007, to take Communication Studies courses at the University of Windsor. He has written for the Windsor Star, and operates a blog. Allan Douglas Strong (Waterloo—Wellington) Strong received 1,845 votes (4.11%), finishing fourth against Liberal Lynn Myers. He