As a municipal councillor, I’ve seen how many of us are being left behind by our federal and provincial governments. I want to use my voice in Ottawa to bring electoral and tax reform, bring more money to affordable housing and healthcare and to end to fossil fuel subsidies.

As a municipal councillor, I’ve seen how many of us are being left behind by our federal and provincial governments. I want to use my voice in Ottawa to bring electoral and tax reform, bring more money to affordable housing and healthcare and to end to fossil fuel subsidies.

The local candidate who pops for me is Lauren Greenlaw, running for the Green Party. Lauren is an earth scientist and a Squamish city councillor. She has a zero bullshit way of speaking that cuts to the heart of every issue she speaks to, backed by a wealth of facts and comprehension about how to fix what’s broken in our culture. She’s already hard at work building a network of small businesses to strengthen our local economy up and down the Sea-to-Sky corridor. (That’s whether she’s elected or not — she just sees it as a way to promote economic resilience.) She has a less than 1% chance of winning this seat, but when I imagine an empty ballot, hers is the only name that makes me smile to think about checking the box beside it.