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The 2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election was held on October 25, 2010 to elect a mayor and 12 city councillors in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. In addition, school trustees were elected to the Rainbow District School Board, Sudbury Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Grand Nord de l'Ontario and Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario. The election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario. For other elections, see Ontario municipal elections, 2010. Candidate registration opened on January 4, 2010. Six candidates, including three incumbents and three challengers, submitted their nomination papers in the first week.〔("Nomination process begins for municipal election" ). ''Northern Life'', January 6, 2010.〕 The final registration deadline for candidates was September 10, 2010.〔("Election takes shape" ). ''Sudbury Star'', February 1, 2010.〕 ==Issues== One of the dominant issues in the election campaign was the status of the city's St. Joseph's Hospital. With the completion of the new Sudbury Regional Hospital facility, the closure of the St. Joseph's site was imminent — however, despite the city's longtime interest in acquiring the property due to its adjacency to Bell Park and Lake Ramsey, the Sisters of St. Joseph sold the site in 2010 to Panoramic Properties, a condominium developer from Niagara Falls.〔("St. Joseph's slipped though council's hands" ). ''Sudbury Star'', June 2010.〕 The campaign was subsequently marked by conflicting claims about how much notice the Sisters gave to city council, and how much time and money the city did or didn't have to prepare a counteroffer for the site; a community group, Save Bell Park, formed to lobby for the site's protection.〔("Group wants to restore Bell Park to its past glory" ). ''Sudbury Star'', June 2010.〕 Less dramatically, most voters identified road maintenance and property taxes as their other key priorities in the election.〔("Voters grumbling, but they are not yet ready to revolt" ). ''Sudbury Star'', October 15, 2010.〕 For the first time since the 2000 election, notably, the municipal amalgamation of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury into the current city of Greater Sudbury, which took place in 2000, did not register as a prominent election issue. The issue of retail store hours in the city also became an election issue when Marianne Matichuk supported allowing businesses to set their own hours without regulation from the city. If passed, this would include allowing stores in the city to open on Boxing Day for the first time; with labour unions being a prominent political force in the city, the issue of balancing the rights of retailers to set business hours against the rights of workers to holiday time at Christmas has been a persistent debate in Sudbury's municipal politics.〔("Workers deserve day off: Mayor" ). ''Sudbury Star'', September 29, 2010.〕 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.〔("Debate participation sparks controversy" ). ''Sudbury Star'', October 9, 2010〕 Marianne Matichuk publicly criticized the Chamber of Commerce for not excluding Popescu from the debate, while 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. On the final Friday of the election campaign, the ''Sudbury Star'' endorsed Matichuk for the mayor's chair. The following day, the paper published an article headlined "City misled public about manager's dismissal", alleging that Rodriguez and the incumbent council had deliberately lied to the public about the resignation of Alan Stephen, the former manager of the city's infrastructure and emergency services division, in 2006;〔("City misled public about manager's dismissal" ). ''Sudbury Star'', October 23, 2010.〕 however, the incident described in the article was one in which the city appeared to simply have followed its legal obligation to maintain confidentiality around matters involving employee relations. The newspaper subsequently faced criticism for its portrayal of the story and for publishing the story only after it would be too late for Rodriguez or any other member of the city's staff to respond ahead of election day; in an interview on CBC Northern Ontario's ''Points North'' following the election, ''Sudbury Star'' managing editor Brian MacLeod stated that the paper had received the information in an anonymous brown envelope several days before the story went to print.〔''Points North'', October 26, 2010.〕 The Ontario Provincial Police subsequently announced that they were conducting an investigation into the leak.〔("Matichuk not behind leak" ). ''Sudbury Star'', November 6, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greater Sudbury municipal election, 2010」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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