Supporters in orange came out to Niki Ashton’s Thompson campaign launch and office opening yesterday.

The NDP candidate for Churchill-Keewatinook Aski says she’s optimistic about the election:

"I feel good about it, I mean today there was great energy great turnout here in our home community. We’ve had events in The Pas, OCN, we’ve had events in Flin Flon, we’ve been  doing campaign events in the new part of the riding, in the Interlake so we’re just going to keep visiting, keep travelling, and keep connecting and encouraging people to vote for orange and vote for change at the national level on October 19th". 

Ashton says the main issues she is focusing on, is protecting public services, protecting value added jobs, and fairness for First Nations and Metis peoples.

These will be Ashton's fourth elections, as she seeks re-election for a third term.