Sorenson announces intent to run for new riding

Times Reporter 

 

On April 2, Crowfoot MP and Minister of State (Finance) Kevin Sorenson, who currently represents Strathmore and Wheatland County, announced he has filed his nomination papers to become the first MP of the new Battle River-Crowfoot riding.

Strathmore, Wheatland County, Chestermere, part of Medicine Hat and High River will become part of the new Bow River riding. No one has officially announced their intent to run at this time, but it is the riding that George Canyon and a few other people have said publicly they were considering running in. 

Due to population growth across the province, six new constituencies have been added to Alberta, causing all the boundary lines to change. Sorenson has represented the Crowfoot constituency for 14 years. 

“I’m very disappointed to lose the south because you gain a lot of friends and you get to know councils and you work with people and then all of a sudden you’re into a different riding. Part of it is disappointing and I guess in other ways you look forward to working with new people again,” said Sorenson.

 The election, which will see the new constituencies come into effect, won’t happen until October 2015. 

“I continue to represent Strathmore (Wheatland County), and Chestermere until the election, which is in the fall of ’15. It’s a year and a half so it’s not like it’s a good-bye, but I think it is also important for them to know where my intentions are, where I would run, and I live in that northern part so it’s kind of an obvious fit.”