The race to become the Conservative Party nominee to represent Pickering-Uxbridge has heated up with the recent entry of Anthony Yacub.
Prior to Yacub throwing his hat in the Conservative Party ring, the race was more moderate with the leading candidate being Nancy Van Rooy.
Nancy Van Rooy
Nancy Van Rooy, an early and very politically attractive candidate for the nomination, seemed likely to run off with the race a few months ago.
Van Rooy has been a candidate in previous election campaigns, running unsuccessfully at the municipal level in 2022.
She has lived in the Pickering area for almost 40 years, raising her family and working her career in law enforcement there.
As a police officer, Van Rooys has been a patrol officer, an investigating detective and in her closing years the Media Sergeant for the Durham Regional Police Service.
Van Rooy is a community-minded and community-driven Pickering-Durham region resident who has been actively and constructively involved in community leadership for 35 years.
Outside of her professional and community work, she spends time with her family, enjoys her passion for sailing the waterways of Ontario and cares for rescue dogs as her family pets. As well, she is dedicated and passionate about the preservation of Ontario’s water-related ecology and keeping Ontario’s environment green and strong.
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Anthony Yacub
The entry of Anthony Yacub into the race to become the Conservative Party nominee for Pickering-Uxbridge has turned the race into a real constituency nomination dogfight.
Anthony Yacub is a culturally rich Canadian with parents from Guyana and India. He understands the challenges facing new immigrants to Canada.
Academically he holds degrees in Economics and Psychological Counselling; professionally, he is a registered Psychotherapist in Ontario. His academic and professional credentials are layers enriching him as a political candidate. He became a registered member of the Conservative Party at 14, working in the party structure for many years, ultimately becoming the President of the Pickering-Uxbridge Conservative Party District Association, a position from which he resigned to campaign for the district Conservative nomination.
He has been recognized and awarded for his dedication and hard work within the party being awarded “Outstanding EDA President of the Year.” Yacub does not seem to be one to rest on his laurels or his academic and professional credentials.
His goals are to create practical accessibility of home ownership, make the Canadian Dream a reality again, affect the reduction of inflationary deficits and high-interest rates, increase CPP funding to improve living for seniors and develop jobs by working on reduction of residential taxes. Lofty goals but needed ones for Canadians today.
As a first-time political candidate, Yacub’s aims may seem idealistic but he sincerely believes the Conservative Party can improve Canadians’ lives and he is dedicating himself to making these ideals practical and achievable reality.
