Everything good in this region gets paid for by a few honest industries: the energy patch, the forests, and the farm. The paycheques, the arenas, the school fundraisers, the province’s books — all of it rides on people who get up early, work outside in every kind of weather, and ask for nothing except to be left alone to do it.
Those people have spent a decade being treated like a problem to be managed by a federal government that has never had to live on what it grows or sells. That has to end, and Alberta’s next generation of MLAs has to be part of ending it.
Where I stand
- Stand with our energy and forestry workers — against Ottawa’s overreach. Emissions caps designed in Ottawa boardrooms, net-zero mandates on impossible timelines, policies that treat the Peace Country as a place to be phased out: I’ll oppose them, plainly and on the record.
- Agriculture is not a photo-op. Farm families deal in real numbers — inputs, fuel, freight, interest. Government’s job is to lower those burdens, defend property rights, and otherwise get out of the way.
- Value-added here, not somewhere else. More of what we pump, cut and grow should be processed in this region, by people who live here.
- Respect the landowner. Nobody should learn about a decision affecting their land from a notice pinned to a post. Consultation means before, not after.
I call this issue “the backbone” for a reason: when it’s strong, everything else — healthcare, schools, safe communities — stands up straighter. Weaken it, and everything sags.
If you work the patch, the bush, or the land: this campaign is yours. Put your name in, tell me what you’re seeing out there, and let’s make sure Wapiti’s voice is one nobody in Edmonton — or Ottawa — can ignore.
— Karen