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By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

Red Deer-South

Green Party candidate Lori Curran looking to spark conversation

Apr 13, 2019 | 4:36 PM

The Green Party candidate in Red Deer-South is willing to admit she’s highly unlikely to win a seat in the Legislature this Tuesday.

However, Lori Curran hopes her campaign efforts and those of her fellow Green Party candidates throughout the province will start a conversation.

“I am disillusioned with how things have been going in politics. I’m fed up with the corruption and unfulfilled promises that seem to be the norm,” she says.

“I’m also a grandmother to a little three-year-old girl and I’m very concerned about her future because of climate change.”

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A registered massage therapist and holistic nutritionist, Curran says her political experience is basically non-existent, but adds that life experience can go a long way.

“I’m a very honest person and I like to think I have high integrity, and I think that’s what is missing in politics,” she says. “I care very much about people and our environment, which we all need. We can’t have an economy if we don’t have an environment in the first place.”

Curran says what separates her party from the others is that the Greens don’t have a whip, and that they wouldn’t be controlled by large corporations, which she believes the current governments are.

“We need to have a new story where we get back to democracy, more representation of the individual citizens, and drafting legislation that can help get the power back in the hands of the citizens,” she says.

“If you look around at your fellow human beings and see many innocents suffering, fear and hatred, greed and unfairness, and you’d rather see respect for diversity, social justice, non-violence and participatory democracy, think about voting Green.”