Liberal candidate Rooke says he hopes to change Medicine Hat from ‘blue area’

“It is just truly amazing that for all the years that they have been electing, or being ‘blue’, shall we say, that it never has occurred that maybe they’re not getting anything,” he told CHAT News Saturday.

“Every survey seems to indicate that the Liberals are going to form the next government,” he added.

“Why then would they not want to have a representative in the government to carry their concerns with them? That’s what I hope to do if I’m elected.”

Rooke said on a doorknock or campaign, his party will also run into people who are completely opposed to what the Liberal government stands for.

He said everybody is entitled to their own opinion, as that is what democracy is, and that’s what they want democracy to continue to be.

He said the party doesn’t want to have somebody dictating Canadians.

Rooke said the Liberal party doesn’t want to have somebody in power dictating Canadians.. Jayk Sterkenburg/CHAT News

Rooke said he believes the majority of people are going to think that it’s time to vote for somebody who might get into power if the Liberals form the government.

He said that is what it looks like the Liberals are going to do.

Federally, projected polls currently show Liberals with the majority of seats — holding 188, in comparison to the Conservative’s 123.

Rooke said southeast Alberta has been a “fairly blue” area, but that he hopes to change that. Jayk Sterkenburg/CHAT News

Rooke said people are expressing that they don’t care for the way the Conservative Party is going, especially under opposition leader Pierre Poilievre.

He said the people out in the country — farmers, ranchers and producers — deserve somebody to be on the side of the government to carry their concerns with them.

“I’ve had people say, even today, that it’s been too long without representation in the government of the day,” he said.

“They’re saying they just can’t find it in their hearts to vote Conservative anymore. It’s not the Conservative party that they thought they were voting for many years ago,” he added.

“It is something that is extremely right, and they don’t like it. And so they’re saying, ‘Maybe this once, I’m just gonna try something else and see what happens’.”

Rooke said he hopes there’s enough people who are willing to change their political stance before the election.

by Jayk Sterkenburg

Liberal candidate Rooke says he hopes to change Medicine Hat from ‘blue area’

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