In this election, Anna Di Carlo is running in the Ontario riding of Etobicoke North. Anna was elected National Leader at the Party's 8th Congress in August 2008. Anna has played an active role in elaborating the MLPC's program of democratic renewal since 1989. An expert in the party-dominated system of representative democracy, she represents the MLPC on the Elections Canada Advisory Committee of Registered Political Parties and prepares briefs on behalf of the MLPC to the government regarding changes to the electoral laws.

Anna has consistently opposed electoral reforms which have strengthened the power and privilege of the political parties of the establishment and argued out the position of the MLPC that the starting point of electoral reform must be to bring about changes which will guarantee that all members of the polity can exercise the Charter-recognized right to elect and to be elected. She is dedicated to eliminating the inequalities that currently exist based on a person's status in the society in terms of wealth and access to the levers of political power.

Pierre Chénier is Secretary of the Party's Workers' Centre. Besides other things, the Workers' Centre calls on Canadians to become worker politicians and build the Workers' Opposition in the Parliament.

"We have to organize to elect worker politicians to the Parliament to set the direction of the economy so that it guarantees the rights of all. We have to deprive the rich and their governments of their power to turn our lives upside down and wreck the economy. We have to put to rest the charade that we will be represented politically by dividing ourselves behind the parties of the rich," Pierre says.

A printer by trade, Pierre has taken up the Party's work to end the marginalization of the workers' demands and smash the silence on their working conditions. Pierre is known for his interviews with workers published in The Marxist-Leninist Daily and Workers' Forum and for championing the cause of all workers, especially injured workers who are blamed for their injuries. "No responsibility is taken to compensate them, let alone assist them to lead productive lives,"  Pierre points out.

A Quebec native, Pierre also works hard to make sure the voice of the Quebec working class and people  is heard across the country and that the plans to incite civil war within Canada are defeated. Both the economic and political/constitutional crises must be resolved in favour of the people, Pierre points out.

"The youth are at the centre of the work to renew our political system so as to  realize their aspiration for a bright future. If we don't solve the problems we face  as youth by building a society fit for human beings, no one will!" - Jamilé  Ghaddar, MLPC Candidate

Jamilé Ghaddar is the Secretary of the MLPC Youth for Democratic Renewal  and MLPC candidate for Ancaster-Dundas- Flamborough-Westdale. Today less than three per cent of youth say they are party members and only 11 per cent  say they have ever been party members at one time or another. "This is not because youth are apolitical but because the political process simply has nothing to offer them, except to those who seek to make careers for themselves in one of the major parties. The party youth wings are usually a stepping stone for this, "Jamilé points out.

The MLPC Youth for Democratic Renewal is very different. Its aim is to involve the youth in solving the problems facing themselves and their society, not to promote the fortunes of this or that electoral machine. The low voter turn-out of youth is one such problem. "This is an expression of their marginalization and that their political, economic, social and cultural demands far exceed the possibility of them being met within the current political process, " Jamilé explains.

Young people are alienated by the outlook of the ruling political parties, she says. These parties tend to characterise youth and their culture in stereotypes. They reduce the fullness of life's demands into narrow so-called youth issues that split the polity and divert it from the need to humanize the social and natural environment, she points out. One of the central responsibilities of Youth for Democratic Renewal is to provide the youth with the information they need and assist them to oppose the outright disinformation which leaves many unable to reach warranted conclusions on the political affairs of the country, including electoral and parliamentary affairs.

Youth for Democratic Renewal also participates in the anti-war movement, Jamilé points out. Youth must  not be used as cannon fodder in imperialist wars of aggression and occupation, and must be in the forefront of organizing for an anti-war government, she says. Many of the MLPC youth are also known for their leading roles in the work to guarantee the rights of youth to education, healthcare, housing, culture, sports, recreation and a livelihood commensurate with the Canadian standard, Jamilé points out.

Jamilé is also well-known for opposing the criminalization of conscience. She champions Palestinian rights and opposes attempts to criminalize political dissent by turning political opinion on Israel and ideological opposition to Zionism into hate crimes. She is also well-known for her opposition to the state violence unleashed against the people at the G20 protests and the anti-human consequences of the Harper government agenda in practice.

Jamilé is a Canadian of Lebanese descent. She received her degree in Anthropology and Linguistics from McMaster University and is a part-time graduate student at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. She has worked within the immigration settlement sector as a youth coordinator and settlement worker. She has also worked in the women's sector as a crisis-intervention and case worker within shelters. Jamilé continues working in the social work sector while also being a full-time politician. In her work for democratic renewal Jamilé pays specific attention to defending minority rights and the rights of all peoples to self-determination.