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Meet the candidate: Gerald Soroka, Conservative Party of Canada
The new Conservative candidate in the riding of Yellowhead will have to fill the boots left by Jim Eglinski, who is retiring after serving two terms as a member of parliament.
Gerald Soroka, a lifelong resident of Evansburg, says he wants to see the country and province get back to work
“I don’t care if it is oil, gas, forestry, agriculture, we’re struggling in each one of those areas. This means building pipelines, and the Conservatives want to look at getting rid of all imports such as oil and gas from Saudi Arabia,” he says. “Once we can get our economy back and going, that’s where you can easily afford a lot more of the technologies.”
On climate change, Soroka says his party won’t put a tax on carbon, but they won’t let heavy emitters get away with it penalty-free.