Douglas Galavan, Peoples Party of Canada (PPC) candidate for the riding of Yellowhead.

By Sheldon Spackman

Yellowhead

Meet the candidate: Douglas Galavan, People’s Party of Canada

Oct 16, 2019 | 4:04 PM

Anxiety over the Oct. 21 election seems to be a common theme in the riding of Yellowhead.

That according to People’s Party of Canada (PPC) candidate Douglas Galavan who describes it as a level of anxiety he’s never seen before in a federal election.

“There’s constant talk of separation,” reveals Galavan. “People very recently after the last debate on Monday night, some of the things I’ve heard, I mean Maxime (Bernier – PPC Leader) was the only one I believe even said the word ‘Alberta’ in that entire debate, and the whole economic crisis here seems to be just being washed-over like it doesn’t matter. People are very, very upset.”

Galavan says one of the biggest issues in the Yellowhead region is the Paris Accord and how it’s being applied across Canada.

“This notion that we’re going after CO2, which our party and myself for many, many years have never believed that CO2 is a driver of the climate,” he explains. “And pushing towards this restriction and taxation of this, and then not addressing some of the very real environmental issues and not addressing the massive deficit spending in the country where the real threat lies to Canadians, I think is an absolute disaster.”

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With climate change and the environment being a recurring theme in this election, Galavan says it’s important to note that climate change has always happened.

“What we’re really talking about is a man-made or the CO2 being the driving force behind that at the major source,” he exclaims. “It may in fact play a very minor role, but that is not what is being proposed. This ‘climate emergency’ that’s being discussed is absolute fiction.”

Freedom of expression is another area of concern according to Galavan.

“There are laws being passed in very little defense coming from anybody now besides us, to defend freedom of expression,” he laments. “Then on top of it we have this constant meddling from the United Nations and it’s dangerous for our sovereignty, and so we want to push back against any of these accords and agreements that are not in the best interests of Canadians.”

Galavan says being part of Rally Canada earlier this year eventually led him to run in this year’s federal election.

“We were fighting the NDP government when it revolved around the Bighorn park proposal and they wanted to restrict access to our back country,” he recalls. “As well as, we were strong defenders and I continue to be a strong defender of our energy industries, and this fight for those industries and for our economic interests continue. This is the political side to what I was doing on the non-partisan side.”

In addition to those concerns, Galavan describes Canada’s finances as being in ‘terrible shape’.

“There’s a world-wide risk here of either a monetary problem or certainly an economic recession or depression possibly coming and I just don’t think Canada is in any way, shape or form prepared for it,” he exclaims. “We always invite people to please read our tax policies and read our immigration policies and all the other things that are obviously affecting people. The one thing I do hear all the time is people absolutely love our platform but they just think the party is too new to make a difference, and we say they’re wrong, we’re ready now!”

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