Prashanta 2025

Author: Ben Wood

  • Article: Where Ottawa West-Nepean Candidates stand on housing, public service, crime, and more

    Article: Where Ottawa West-Nepean Candidates stand on housing, public service, crime, and more

    The Ottawa Citizen has compiled questions and responses from readers in and candidates for Ottawa West-Nepean. Prashanta’s responses have been included in the article. Please read below.

    We do have issues with not being able to build homes quickly enough. We have regulatory hurdles and we have policies that make a lot of mom-and-pop landlords not want to be landlords. That’s part of the problem, but a bigger part of the problem was that our population growth grew too quickly. And it was completely in our hands because that population growth came from immigration. Immigration is good. I’m a first-generation immigrant myself, but it has to be controlled. It has to be at a sustainable level.

    https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-west-nepean-candidates-federal-election

  • Link – Ottawa Citizen

    Link – Ottawa Citizen

    The Ottawa Citizen has covered our first debate for the April 28, 2025 election.

    Several questions addressed climate change, to the consternation of People’s Party of Canada candidate Glen Armstrong, who claimed “uncertainty” around the science of climate change and voiced doubts on the validity of carbon-capture programs. “Carbon dioxide is a natural substance that is absorbed by plants. So why the carbon capture?,” he wondered, only to be schooled by the Green Party’s Prashanta Dhakal. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant in small quantities, but it’s bad in large concentrations,” Dhakal explained patiently. “We need a certain amount of carbon dioxide in order to keep the planet warm, but, if there’s too much, it’s like a blanket, it can overheat the climate … It’s absolutely known science. This is nothing new and I don’t know why we’re talking about this now.” He received a round of applause for keeping his cool on the issue. 

    – Lynn Saxberg, Ottawa Citizen

    Read the full article here.

    Four candidates stand behind a desk while a host introduces them to the crowd
    Prashanta Dhakal with the Green Party joins three other candidates at an all candidates debate in Ottawa.