Meet the candidate: Cory Lystang, Libertarian Party of Canada
Brought-up as a Conservative supporter, the Libertarian Party of Canada candidate for the riding of Yellowhead, says it was the Conservative Party not doing what they said they would do that prompted him to run in this year’s federal election.
As a result, Cory Lystang says he became disillusioned with government and got into politics while fighting for the rights of firearms owners.
“The Libertarian Party is a good fit because I definitely believe that government is too large,” he explains. “We pay way too much tax and it kind of ticks all the boxes. Once you get over the idea that you don’t have a right to tell other people what to do, as long as they’re not damaging anything of yours, or yourself, it all kind of works for me.”
Lystang describes the Party as being based on the ‘Libertarian ideal’.