As West Central Online catches up with the last of our candidates for the Kindersley constituency, Green Party candidate, Evangeline Gordon, submitted the following summary of her background and her platform, that she feels - sets her apart from her competitors. 

"Evangeline Gordon is Saskatchewan's oldest and most experienced Green candidate.

It seems she was destined, from an early age to be an activist and - disturber. She provoked her first "death threat" in the fourth grade, when she defended Jewish students against bullies. She has gone on to campaign for Indigenous and minority rights, a clean green economy, universal health/pharama care and access to higher education.

Evangeline understands the situation of working people in Saskatchewan because she has worked, right from age 11 in restaurants, tourism, construction, transportation, mental health and in in the schools. She is even remembered in South Korea where she taught English.

As an emergency counselor, she has been credited with saving numerous lives from suicide (We could go on.) Evangeline, a long-time Green Party member, is our public citizen. We proudly present her as our MLA candidate in Kindersley."

As Evangeline's six platform positions

  • 1) to create a crown co-op to process hemp (it can be processed into anything that fossil fuel can be made into) in as starters to HEMPCRETE (like concrete but, oh so much better and durable by 100's of years, an mildew, rot/fungus free, firer proof with 1/6th the weight, hemp into plastics for grocery bags and plastic drinking straw.

  • 2) transparency at all levels of government - they don't tell us for instance how long kids wait for a new transplant body part only that adults wait four years, no any stats on adoptions i.e. how many are adopted against the will of the original family/mother etc. the fate of ex-foster kids once too old for the system. Nor do they give even accurate unemployment figures - only counting those on EI, not those who used theirs up but are still unemployed nor the 2,325,000 homeless in Canada and 2,200 in Regina homeless and unemployed.

  • 3) enhance Medicare to include Pharamacare i.e. free prescription drugs.

  • 4) Housing First to end homelessness - not a small problem with an average life expectancy of only 39 years. Already tried in Medicine Hat, AB

  • 5) GLI (guaranteed livable income) already tried in Dauphin, MA. 

  • 6) P.R. (proportional representation) that means a political party only get the amount of seats and power that their popular vote is equal to. Like 39% of the popular vote Justin got should have gotten his party only 39% of the seats and he should have shared the power and not 50% of the seats and 100% of the power when deciding to buy the pipeline in BC.