Regina-Qu'Appelle

Candidates:

Liberal: Jordan Ames-Sinclair

Jordan Ames-Sinclair is the Liberal Party candidate for Regina-Qu’Appelle. He was born and raised in Regina and is a member of the Zagime Anishinabek, formally known as the Sakimay First Nation. Ames-Sinclair has worked on several campaigns at the Federal, Provincial and Indigenous levels of government.

“My pillars are Indigenous policy strong action for the environment and climate change, immigration policy and lots of social justice policy and issues,” said Ames-Sinclair.

Ames-Sinclair also emphasized some environmental policies like lowering of taxes for green technology cutting the taxes and raising them on high polluters and no net emissions by 2050, as part of his platform.

“Climate change is real and it’s important that it’s discussed in government and it is discussed that Canada does measures to protect our environment because we have such a beautiful one,” said Ames-Sinclair.

He also highlighted the Child Tax Benefit, affordable housing, and bringing more Indigenous and youth perspectives to parliament as important parts the Liberal campaign platform

Conservative: Andrew Scheer

Andrew Scheer is the Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Regina-Qu’Appelle. He has been the sitting MP in this riding since 2004.

He is the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and has served as the Official Opposition House Leader before winning the Conservative Party Leadership race in 2017.

"We need to get pipelines built to get our energy sector back on its feet and to support the thousands of jobs that exist," Scheer told CTV News while talking about the Evraz Steel plant in his riding. "Also, reopening the markets that have been closed to our canola producers, that's another important issue for this province and addresses some of the issues around the inner city part of Regina as well."

According to Scheer’s campaign site, if elected he wants to lower taxes, put more control on government spending, and a introduce new economic plan for the Canada that “creates prosperity and opportunity for everyone.”

NDP: Ray Aldinger

Ray Aldinger is the New Democratic Party Candidate for Regina-Qu’Appelle. He currently works with young offenders at a regional youth centre where he also worked as chief steward of the SGEU. This election is his first time running for office.

“The NDP’s platform is compassion. It’s making a connection to not just the wealthier group of people that we have in this country, it addresses the majority,” said Aldinger. “Right now this is a platform that will give me the opportunity to not only educate but make a lasting different for everyone in the Regina-Qu’Appelle riding.”

Aldinger says the two main parts of his platform are meant to keep costs down for Canadians, through efforts to make housing more affordable, and the implementation of pharmacare.

He also says Canada is in a “climate crisis,” and the NDP is looking to create jobs surrounding the environmental issues and strategies.

“We don’t just want to put a carbon tax on people. We want to do follow up with 300,000 jobs being created around the environment, to not only study but act on our plan,” said Aldinger.

Green: Dale Dewar

Dale Dewar is the Green Party of Canada candidate for Regina-Qu’Appelle. She is a rural doctor and associate professor of family medicine with the University of Saskatchewan. Dewar has experience in health and wellness, environmental activism and is a self-described pacifist.

Dewar lives on an organic acreage in the Touchwood Hills between Raymore and Wynyard, and said her rural experience can help her represent her riding in Ottawa.

“I don’t think enough speaks for rural Canada in any government level,” said Dewar. “I fell that as a person who grew up rural, a person who has virtually lived all my adult life rural, I have some understanding for the problems that are faced by living outside. I can speak with a rural voice.

She said she is looking to support efforts to implement pharmacare and improvements to public transportation in rural areas of the province.

If elected, she said would also like to see the foreign workers program eliminated to open more job opportunities for Canadians, and stop the exploitation of foreign workers.

People's Party: Tracey Sparrowhawk

Tracey Sparrowhawk is the People’s Party of Canada candidate for Regina-Qu’Appelle. This is her first time running in a federal election. She works as an audiologist and previously worked in government as a consultant on licensing projects for private hearing clinics in the province.

“I believe in Maxime Bernier’s vision for Canada and his values which are personal responsibility, individual freedom, fairness and respect, which is how I want to live my life as a Canadian.”

She highlighted the People’s Party’s immigration policy as an important part of her own platform. She reiterates that there is “no climate emergency or climate crisis.” Sparrowhawk also would like to see Canada withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and believes Canada should reduce or eliminate its involvement with the United Nations.

“[The environment] might come up when I’m going door knocking, but it’s more because people are against the carbon tax. So we would not have a carbon tax at the federal level,” said Sparrowhawk.

The Libertarian Pary: James Plummer

James Plummer is the Libertarian Party of Canada candidate for Regina-Qu’Appelle. He has been a small business entrepreneur for 20 years, and has a background in business and finance. He currently lives in Pilot Butte.

“In the last few elections I really haven’t felt that there’s anybody to vote for anymore, I felt the big parties are out of touch,” said Plummer.

Plummer says he believes in the Libertarian Party’s beliefs in decreased government involvement, lower taxes and affordability, giving more freedoms to Canadians. He sees the Libertarian party as an alternative to the parties that currently hold seats in parliament.

“I’m just more of a regular concerned citizen, tired of seeing government grow non-stop. So I think I could represent more of a down to earth base compared to regular type politicians,” said Plummer.

He is also against the carbon tax, wants to remove government intervention in business through a free market system and would like to see more privatized health care options for Canadians.

Electoral History

Qu’Appelle was taken from the Northwest Territories in 1905 for the new Saskatchewan. In 1957, it was won on his fourth try in the region by PC Alvin Hamilton, the architect of Diefenbaker’s first national win, which was without Quebec. He was Northern Affairs, then Agriculture Minister and when the riding became Qu’Appelle-Moose Mountain for the 1968 vote and Hamilton switched to Regina East and lost while Moose Mountain Tory MP Dick Southam won here.

Southam quit after a term andit had Hamilton 1972-1988. Regina-Qu’Appelle: Simon de Jong of the NDP won in 1988-1997 when he retired to allow Lorne Nystrom to run.

Nystrom held Yorkton- Melville 1968-1993 when he lost. Nystrom won here in both 1997 and by a hair in 2000 but lost to Conservative Andrew Scheer in 2004. Scheer won four more consecutive times in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015.

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