Patty Hajdu has spent much her career helping the disadvantaged.
She’s hoping to take it one step further in 2015. Hajdu, the executive director at Shelter House, plans to take a run at the federal Liberal nomination in Thunder Bay-Superior North, one of two ridings currently held by the Green Party.
Hajdu, who hopes to ride a second Trudeaumania wave, says the decision has been a while in the making, but was one she finally decided she had to take.
“I’ve been interested in politics for a long time. A lot of the work that I’ve done in both public health and now the Shelter House is political because so much of what happens at the local level is determined by political decisions,” Hajdu said on Thursday.
Many of those decisions came at the federal level, she added.
“So this seemed like a perfect fit and with the upcoming election I thought I’d better get my act together.”
Prior to her present position, Hajdu served as the city’s drug strategy co-ordinator.
Yves Fricot was the Liberal candidate in 2011, but he lost to then NDP incumbent Bruce Hyer, who subsequently crossed the floor to join the Greens.
