Souris - Moose Mountain

Candidates:

Liberal: Javin Ames-Sinclair

Javin Ames-Sinclair is the Liberal Party candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain.

Conservative: Robert Kitchen

Robert Kitchen is the Conservative Party candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain. He is the incumbent candidate for this riding.

Kitchen comes from a background in kinesiology and chiropractics. He has now called Estevan home for 31 years. He began his political career in 1989 with the Reform Party, but eventually transitioned to the Conservative Party.

He says he wants to increase affordability for Canadians through eliminating the carbon tax, implementing a universal tax credit and taking GST off of home heating costs.

“If we can put that money into your pocket so you can make that decision, that’s not only better for you, it’s better for the economy,” said Kitchen.

For Souris-Moose Mountain, Kitchen said he wants to focus on agriculture to make it easier for farmers to sell their products in international markets and create jobs in the natural resources sector through encouraging the development of pipelines.

NDP: Ashlee Hicks

Ashlee Hicks is the New Democratic Party candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain.

Hicks has lived in Saskatchewan for her whole life and is a member of the Cowessess First Nation.

She highlighted the “tough” environmental plan and the implementation of universal pharmacare and dental care, and better access to affordable child care as key parts of the NDP platform.

“I did have to stay home to raise my kids because there was no affordable child care that I could access, so I think that that is a really important point for me,” said Hicks.

She also noted the party’s advocacy for a higher minimum wage.

Green: Judy Mergel

Judy Mergel is the Green Party candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain.

Mergel is a retired cattle rancher that currently lives on an acreage just outside of Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan. She became a member of the federal Green Party this year, but has been a member of the Saskatchewan Green Party for five years.

Mergel says the platform point she is most excited about is a guaranteed livable income for Canadians. She is also concerned about the “climate crisis” and continuing towards renewable energy.

“This is a riding where the oil industry is very important, but I feel that were on the edge of a huge shift and the shift is to renewables,” said Mergel. The Green Party does promise retraining and development green jobs, and wouldn’t just leave people hanging.”

She also says the Green Party would take a different strategy for the Carbon Tax, and would focus more tax on high earners and heavy emitters.

People's Party: Phillip Zajac

Phillip Zajac is the People’s Party candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain.

Zajac grew up in Regina and attended school in Wisconsin, where he studied sociology and political sciences, which he says prepared him for politics. He joined the People’s Party early on following its creation.

One of Zajac’s focuses for his riding is the People’s Party’s commitment to removing Canada from the Paris Climate Agreement. He says natural resource jobs in the riding have suffered due to the government’s environmental goals for 2030.

“We have a lot of families in our communities that work in the mines,” said Zajac. “It will also affect SaskPower here with our dams. If all of it gets shut down in terms of coal, it’s going to be really bad for southeast Saskatchewan to survive.”

Zajac also highlighted the People’s Party’s platform of getting rid of the carbon tax, reducing immigration and making it more service based as opposed to refugee based, and scrapping Bill C-71 to change gun laws to crack down on people who are breaking the law with firearms, rather than legal gun owners.

Canadian Nationalist Party: Travis Patron

Travis Patron is the Canadian Nationalist Party candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain.

Patron grew up in a farming community in Saskatchewan, and has lived in Saskatchewan his whole life. His background is in business and has worked in the Bitcoin industry.

Patron is the leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party which is brand new for the 2019 election. He says the party advocates for the “nationhood of Canada.”

“We describe that as people who have been born here, people who have grown up here, people who have been paying taxes in this country to this government for multiple generations,” said Patron. “These are the people that we explicitly represent.”

He says the party is focused on returning the Bank of Canada to a publicly run institution, immigration reform and repealing the multiculturalism act.

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