Alberta Party candidate announces intentions

Shannon LeClair
Times Reporter

 

Einar Davison, who is well known in the community of Hussar, has put his name forward as the Strathmore-Brooks candidate for the Alberta Party. Davison first began his political career in 1997 when he met Grant Mitchell, then leader of the Liberal party. Davison found he believed in a lot of the views the party talked about and so he became a Liberal.
As new leaders came along Davison said the ideals and ideas of those leaders didn’t really mesh anymore with him, and for about 10 years he wasn’t involved in politics.
“When the Alberta Party came along it resonated with me, I liked what they were talking about, democracy with more decorum. Instead of people trying to take down the government, we would try and work together for the benefit of Albertans,” said Davison.
During the last election the Alberta Party had just started out and was mostly in the city, and so while he was supportive, there was no one for him to vote for.
“I didn’t feel the Wildrose were going to be much better than the PCs so I was one of those that held my nose and voted PC last election, with great regret,” said Davison.
This election he has decided he wants to be the face of the Alberta Party for this area, and so his campaigning has begun. Davison believes Albertans need a choice. There are two right wing parties and he feels there isn’t really anybody for the centre anymore. He became tired of the parties in the legislature that appeared to be not as concerned about serving the people of Alberta, and says if elected he would try to eliminate a lot of the bureaucracy at the top.
“Basically I believe in better government and less ideology, it seems to be that everyone is more concerned about their own pet ideology as opposed to running the government in a fiscally and socially responsible manner,” said Davison.
If we’re going to be charged a health care levy, said Davison, it really should be going towards health care as opposed to general revenue.
“We want to take a more long-term approach where we work to develop a stronger economy, maintaining fiscal responsibility, but not destroying our social safety nets such as our health care system, and taking good care of education,” said Davison.
“I personally believe that education should be about teaching children, and healthcare about getting patients better as opposed to just dollars and cents, and I think we have gone too far the other way where it is just dollars and cents.
“I know we can do a lot better, it’s just that they’ve been there so long that they can’t see how to do things differently than they have for years and years now. They have had 40 years to show their value as the manager of our government and economy, and they have done a deplorable job.”