This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election.
All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit.
Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of rdnewsNOW and Pattison Media.
Advance voting days are April 18, 19, 20 and 21. More info here.
1) Why are you running to be a Member of Parliament?
Like most Canadians I am fed up with the game of politics in Canada. The way government persistently uses taxpayer money in a partisan manner not for the benefit of Canadians but for the benefit of their party and their connected elites is outright corruption. I’m imagining a best-case scenario where a “bloc” of grass roots, servant MPs hold the balance of power over a minority Conservative or Liberal government and right this ship.
2) Why should people vote for you, and what skills do you have that make you suitable for this role?
I am applying for the job of representative for the people of the Ponoka-Didsbury riding; not the token party hack to front partisan government policy. My promise is to represent honestly and to vote on measures in accordance with the wishes of my constituents.
My skills are in dealing with people in high stress circumstances and managing crises. I have a trade, ran a small business, raised some cattle, worked for large and small companies and have worked for 45 years as an Advanced Care Paramedic and as a manager for the City of Calgary and the provincial health authority.
3) What will you advocate for; and do you intend to fully toe the party line?
Freedom! Respect! Fairness! and Personal Responsibility!
I support parental rights over state control of childrearing, freedom of health decisions over health mandates, freedom of speech over censorship and compelled speech, property rights and castle doctrine over seizure of property and criminalizing self-defense, meritocracy over reverse discrimination, law and order, due process and deterrence over kid glove and catch and release treatment of criminals, reasonable levels of immigration of properly vetted immigrants and zero tolerance for criminality and violating visa conditions over a free for all migration of unassimilable persons, among many more common sense principle
I support election of our head of state and our upper house and a confirmation process for the judiciary and in fact work to outlaw patronage appointments. I want clear separation of federal and provincial responsibilities according to the constitution and an end to federal overreach.
PPC MPs are expected to support the 20 or so policy items that would be the mandate we were elected on. Beyond that there will be no party whip or whipped votes and MPs will be expected to follow their constituents’ expectations. Should we fail, know we also support the practice of recall.
4) How do you believe Canada’s federal government should tackle its current predicament with the United States, and where do you sit on Canadian sovereignty?
First, do not use this situation as an excuse to further restrict freedoms and impose more controls or taxes and tariffs on Canadians. The US will win a tariff war no matter how patriotic we feel or what we threaten them with.
Second, completely open up interprovincial trade in all commodities, eliminate supply management and build pipelines to supply eastern Canadian refineries and export terminals.
The President controls what every trading nation wants and needs, access to the American market. He is making countries pay for that access and he is going to restore American primacy in industry and commerce as well as restore the US dollar as the de facto world reserve currency.
We are a sovereign nation and I will fight to keep it so. But our practices of entering in to trade negotiations with no intention of actually laying everything on the table, years of neglecting our military and border, electing a Marxist, totalitarian and globalist government influenced by enemies of the US, and Canadians’ attitude of superiority and sanctimonious denigration of the USA has led a particularly undiplomatic president to make some changes appealing to his supporters. The threat to our sovereignty is not from the US but rather from a dark force consisting of WEF, the UN, WMF, BIS, IMF etc. that our leaders have bought in to.
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