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HAY RIVER
A second candidate has announced his intention to run in Hay River North in this fall's territorial election.

Roy Courtoreille, 54, joins the race to replace MLA Paul Delorey, who will not be seeking re-election.

Courtoreille, a corrections officer at South Mackenzie Correctional Centre, will be running for public office for the first time, although he has been regional vice-president for the Union of Northern Workers for six years.

"It is very political," he said of the union position. "I've got a lot of experience through that."

Courtoreille is also president of the West Channel Fishermen's Heritage Committee and a former president of Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre.

His main issues in the election are the economy and health care.

Hay River is getting a new hospital, he noted, but added, "The hospital isn't much good to us unless we can find doctors who want to move up here."

Courtoreille said Delorey's decision not to seek re-election had no impact on his own plans to run, noting he made up his mind last September after thinking about it for a year.

The only other candidate so far in Hay River North is Robert Bouchard, a former town councillor.

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