Faith, Family, & Freedom - I support Riverbend families as the most important and foundational part of a healthy Canada - our governments should be small and decisions about your life should be made as closely to your home as possible.

I am a lifelong conservative, someone who defends small government where citizens own and are responsible for their own futures within a free market. I believe in a Canada where the government serves the people, not the other way around.

We have many people with law degrees as members of parliament and others who have only ever been politicians. I think our national parliament also needs representatives who have lived and worked in the real world first - and then give back their years of experience to the country that has blessed them so fully. I have given years of service to the people of Canada as a teacher and school leader in Riverbend and beyond. I want to give back to my community and this great nation that I love!

I’ve worked for many years at an executive level, but have also worked as a teacher, a carpenter before that, and as an award winning school leader. I have a decade of experience working at a senior level with the Alberta Teachers’ Association. From my early married life I know what it is to be raising a family on one income and to wonder about whether there would be money for groceries in the weeks ahead. My wife Susan and I worked so hard to put me through university at the University of Saskatchewan in the hope that we could build a better life for our family, own a home, and achieve the Canadian dream. I worked two jobs at the time while taking an overload of classes, but we did it together. I want our children and the coming generations to also be able to realize the potential of Canada too - to know, deep in their hearts, that if they work hard, they can achieve their dreams in this beautiful country. I want them to be able to dare to hope!

I speak English and French and have broad expertise in multiple fields of endeavour. I want to bring my skills & talent in the coming years to support YOU and to the service of Canada - I’m not a lifelong politician, quite the opposite.

If you support me to be the candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada and I am elected to represent you I commit to you absolutely to not be an “absentee Member of Parliament” but to be present every month in the riding to listen to YOU, to hear your concerns, and to share your dreams and to help bring the Edmonton Riverbend perspective to parliament.

I was born in Edmonton, my children live here in Riverbend, I will never-ever, abandon this wonderful riding.

I believe that Canadians want to turn HOPE into RESULTS in the next federal election. Our children and the generations that are following should reasonably be able to fulfill the dream of home ownership. Families should be able to afford groceries and utilities every month and be able to afford a vacation with one another once a year. We have a right to live in a society where fear of crime is not an ongoing cause of worry.

Our party leader has shared that - “we have more dirt per capita than any other country on earth and that owning a home in Canada ought to be dirt cheap” - I share that belief. I want to help build a country where my children and your children will be able to dare to dream, to build a life here in Riverbend, and to own a home and build a family within that home - without soul-crushing debt in the process.

We have a right to be filled with the hope that the promise of Canada, that has always brought people to this great land and province is attainable for all those willing to work hard and offer their gifts, skills and talents to build their community.

I categorically do not accept the premise that “this is as good as it gets” - but rather I believe that “the best is yet to come” and I will work towards harnessing the HOPE of the good people of Riverbend into making that dream a reality.