Maverick Party organizing in Cypress Hills-grasslands

Western Canada’s newly minted federal political champion, the Maverick Party, is reporting steady growth in establishing new Electoral District Association Boards in the West’s federal ridings.

The Maverick Party’s objective is to deliver a brighter future for millions of westerners after more than 100 years of constitutional discrimination against western Canada by central Canadian governments in their bid to gain and maintain power.

The Maverick Party website sets forth its Twin Track approach for fixing a string of historical measures designed to reduce the West’s political clout, starting with a core group of amendments for negotiation with the federal government. Agreement with this list of amendments would result in updating Canada’s antiquated constitution to fix the flaws which have unnecessarily disadvantaged the West. More information on the

Twin Track approach as well as party platform can be found at maverickparty.ca.

Maverick intends to run candidates in a number of targeted ridings in western Canada, and as of May 14 there were 28 Electoral District Association (EDA) executive boards in place — 17 in Alberta, six in Saskatchewan, four in B.C. and one in Manitoba.

Cypress Hills-grasslands EDA President, Gwen Funk, reports encouraging progress in

Saskatchewan’s Southwest.

“Having just formed our EDA board in February, we have a capable group of executive board members keen on growing our riding membership via public awareness approaches, donation fund-raising, and contributions to Maverick policy platforms. We are also excited to announce our riding’s new candidate, the very capable Mark Skagen of Tompkins,” Funk noted.

Funk highlighted that the issues really resounding with many constituents in this ridings are shared by thousands all across western Canada. Those issues include a highly partisan approach to pipelines, most recently demonstrated by federal government efforts to keep the Line 5 pipeline open to Ontario and Quebec while abandoning Keystone XL and Energy East in the west with nary a peep. Ongoing tanker and firearms bans; Bill C-10, a thinly veiled attempt at government censorship of media; and crushing carbon taxes which disproportionately affect western industry are other major sources of frustration adding to a growing sense of alienation.

“The Maverick Party gives us some optimism and hope for change that for many is long past due,” states Gwen.

Queries within the Cypress Hills-grasslands riding can be directed to Chgmaverickeda@ gmail.com.