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Meet the candidate: Earl Dreeshen, Conservative Party of Canada

Oct 15, 2019 | 5:05 PM

Seeking a fourth term in office, Earl Dreeshen, Conservative candidate for Red Deer-Mountain View, says his roots in the Pine Lake area continue to motivate him to do better by his constituents and all Canadians.

“My family settled here in 1903. It was an era where families helped their neighbours and communities flourished because people actually wanted to work together,” he says. “I was taught that hard work and commitment was necessary not just to be successful for one’s self, but also to help the community thrive. I’m honoured to put my name forward once again.”

At the top of Dreeshen’s priority list is making life affordable for Canadians, something he claims hasn’t been accomplished because of frivolous spending in Ottawa.

“We need a government that is committed to looking after all of its citizens, whether it be seniors, or people that have children. One of the other things, having been the deputy shadow minister for agriculture, I want to help repair the tattered trading relationships that we’ve been forced to endure under the Trudeau government. We’ve lost markets…we’re seeing our products being jeopardized, whether it be in Europe, Africa, South America and now Asia.”

Dreeshen also believes Canada needs Conservative leadership on the world stage, statesmanship over showmanship.

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On another note, Dreeshen says the Liberals are to blame for the divide that has formed between Canadians.

“We’ve got to do away with the politics of division which has the become the hallmark of Justin Trudeau,” he remarks. “Whether it’s the Canada Jobs Program, overzealous political correctness, or so many other things, they’ve been bent on dividing and labeling Canadians at every opportunity.”

Asked whether polarization could be blamed on folks from all sides, he says Canadians all want to get along.

“Right now, we see bills being presented where they just wait until somebody reacts and they say ‘Oh, this means you’re intolerant.’ There’s always going to be discourse and concerns about what happened in one region or another,” he says. “But I’ve never seen it so divided. If you start caring about individuals instead of prepositioning yourself to get ready for an election, I think that’s what we really have to work for.”

Dreeshen noted work such as sitting on the Elnora Hospital Board, passing a private member’s bill to change the Criminal Code, working to end the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, and co-chairing the rural Alberta crime watch task force.

Dreeshen lives in Innisfail with his wife of 45 years.