Marianne Matichuk
| Marianne Matichuk | |
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| Mayor of Greater Sudbury | |
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In office December 1, 2010 – November 30, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | John Rodriguez |
| Succeeded by | Brian Bigger |
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| Residence | Sudbury, Ontario |
Marianne Matichuk is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario in the 2010 municipal election. She was the city's first elected female mayor, although Grace Hartman was previously appointed mayor following the death of Max Silverman in 1966.
An occupational health and safety consultant, first with the city and later with Vale's operations in the Sudbury area, Matichuk was virtually unknown before launching her mayoral campaign in September 2010. However, she quickly gained attention with a focused campaign in which she issued a series of daily press releases attacking aspects of incumbent mayor John Rodriguez's record; by the time Oraclepoll Research released its poll of voter intentions in the mayoral campaign on October 12, Matichuk was in second place with 31.5 per cent support, behind Rodriguez but ahead of longtime city councillor Ted Callaghan.
She made few concrete campaign promises of her own; those she did make included doing a line item review of the city's budget and permitting retail stores in the city to open on Boxing Day.
The mayoral candidacy of David Popescu, a perennial candidate in the Sudbury area who was convicted of hate speech after advocating the execution of homosexuals in the 2008 federal election campaign, also emerged as a minor issue when he was permitted to participate in a mayoral debate sponsored by the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce. Matichuk publicly criticized the Chamber of Commerce for not excluding Popescu from the debate, while opposing candidate Derek Young called Matichuk's move a populist ploy that would both undermine the democratic process and distract from other issues in the debate, and the Chamber of Commerce reiterated that its standing policy when sponsoring political debates was to invite all registered candidates regardless of their personal views. Popescu had already participated in other mayoral debates during the 2010 election campaign without incident, and none of the candidates for mayor, including Matichuk, opted to boycott the Chamber of Commerce debate over Popescu's inclusion.
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