Black Press Media has reached out to all Central Alberta candidates for the 2025 Federal Election and asked four questions:
1) Why are you running to be a Member of Parliament?
2) What skills do you have that make you suitable for this role?
3) What is your plan to address affordability and the cost-of-living crisis?
4) How do you think Canada should handle threats to its sovereignty?
Candidates were given a 500-word limit to answer these questions. Answers may have been edited for grammar or length.
The Federal Election is April 28. Advanced voting starts on April 18.
Riding: Yellowhead
Candidate: Dale Heath - Christian Heritage Party of Canada
Why are you running to be a Member of Parliament?
I am running to be a Member or Parliament for the Christian Heritage Party because I believe Canada needs a Christian choice in parliament to defend and promote the Judeo-Christian principles and values that Canada and western civilization was founded upon. We need to restore these principles already enshrined in the Preamble to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada's Constitution.
I am also running in the election as all CHP candidates are to defend the right to life of the unborn from conception to natural death.
I believe the CHP platform is best for all Canadians to prosper and does not favour any one region or province.
What skills do you have that make you suitable for this role?
I believe in truth,honesty in all situations,fairness and transparency. I am a good listener and I will take all constituents' concerns seriously. I believe in looking at the facts of a situation, and making the best decision based on that.
I also have great party leadership that I can trust and turn to for advice.
What is your plan to address affordability and the cost-of-living crisis?
The CHP would institute slowly the Fair Tax System into Canada.
This system would gradually reduce income tax to zero by replacing it with a sales tax. Citizens would then have greater control over the tax they pay and not
be penalized for making more money. This would also reduce needless costly bureaucracy.
The CHP would eliminate foreign purchases of homes, businesses and farmland.
We would dramatically reduce levels of immigration and refugees, both legal and illegal, as we cannot build homes fast enough to accommodate the numbers entering Canada.
The CHP will end other causes of inflation, such as the carbon tax, and reduce economic barriers to home ownership and affordable rent.
Specifically for Alberta, we would also end the so-called equalization payments, keeping those funds to help all Albertans. We would also make it possible for
Alberta to export oil and gas across Canada and internationally. Would end provincial trade barriers. The CHP would support family-owned farms and support
farmers in transitioning their farms to family members.
How do you think Canada should handle threats to its sovereignty?
Jesus himself said "a nation divided against itself cannot stand." Canada is no longer united as we once were in believing in the Supremacy of God. We have been divided much of it due to the removal of Judeo-Christian values by our government leadership who vilify people and organizations who wish to defend the unborn child's right to life. The present government is attacking religions now by threatening to remove their charitable status. The CHP would do all it can to support the natural family and end abortion.
Canada must be able to defend its borders and government leaders must be willing to use force if required. Canadian armed forces must be supplied with the latest equipment and training. Our veterans deserve our gratitude and duty of care and also families who have lost loved ones in service to our country.
We are sadly lacking defence of the Canadian arctic from Russia among others.
We will do all we can to keep Canada sovereign.
