By Charles Lefebvre

Colette Smithers hoping to share Alberta Party’s message during campaign

Mar 19, 2019 | 6:08 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — Colette Smithers with the Alberta Party says she’s looking forward to sharing her vision for Alberta over the 28 day camapign.

Smithers is running in the Cypress-Medicine Hat riding, against Drew Barnes (United Conservative Party), Peter Mueller (NDP) and Anwar Kamaran (Liberals).

“I would really like to get our message out that the Alberta Party is a viable alternative for people in this constituency and for people in alberta as a whole,” Smithers told CHAT News Tuesday morning, shortly after the election was called. “We have endured so much polarizing and divisive politics over the last, certainly over the last year.

“It’s time to bring people back together, to work on a common vision for creating an Alberta that brings prosperity to all of us, that includes all of us, and everybody feels at home.”

Smithers says she believes the Alberta Party has an opportunity to become a bigger player in Alberta politics during this election.

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“We are running a full slate of 87 candidates,” she said. “And those 87 people are representing a myriad of Albertans who want to see a change, who want to see themselves represented in government, they want to have access to all of the opportunities and prosperity that Alberta offers.”

Smithers, who ran for a seat on Medicine Hat city council in 2017, is an entrepreneur who runs Dream Achievers, which offers “personal and virtual assistance to small business,” according to her bio on the Alberta Party’s website. She is also an active volunteer with poverty and homelessness initiatives.

She says she is running for people she says do not have a voice at the table.

“People feel they’re not being heard, how will my vote count,” she said. “That is a question I’ve been asked so many times. The message that I want to give people, truly from my heart, I’m running in this election because I want people to know they matter.”

Smithers, along with Brooks-Medicine Hat candidate Jim Black, will have their campaign office open at 601 Second Street Southeast in the coming days.

She can be found on Facebook here.