Tell us a little bit about yourself.

"I grew up on a family grain farm down by the American border down south of Frontier. So I learned the value of hard work and the importance of agriculture to our economy and what it means to our country.

I got involved with the electoral district association board back in 2015 and started to learn a little board about the governance structure of the party and to get involved that way. Prior to that, I had helped out with a few different campaigns for the previous member of parliament putting up signs and different things.

So there's always been that involvement around the community, being involved with minor baseball and coaching hockey and referring basketball just been involved with the community a lot.

And as far as professional life prior to being elected I spent about ten years working in communications with Sasktel, so that's where being a voice for broadband and what it means to rural Canada and how we need to enhance the rollout of that is a strength of mine, it's where I draw my experience from previously."

What do you bring with you from the last campaign/election that you feel could help you in this one?

"I think we just need to continue hammering home the point that the west matters and rural Canada matters.

Even before the election was called, our party had already put out some platform announcements based on rural Canada and how we were going to work to prioritize getting broadband delivered out to rural Canadians. We're going to prioritize things going on in the west particularly with the pipelines, with firearms legislation.

Also when it comes to bad policy like the Environmental Assessment act which is basically hampering, not just oil projects, but we've found out in committee that there are green projects that can't even go because of the assessment act. There are some issues that are developing with that.

So I think when you've had that experience you can start to point to some of the things that you've been talking about; you know, the fact that I've always prioritized rural Canadians and rural Canada, particularly this riding and the things that are happening here. I think that it shows the importance that it plays when you've had a little bit of experience and you've been able to voice those issues for people. It gives people a chance to really see what you've done and that's one of the strengths I'll have going into this election."

Is being the Incumbent more or less of a challenge?

"I think every campaign no matter what is a challenge, right? You're always going out asking the general public for their vote and their support.

I now have a year and a half's worth or two years' thereabouts of experience for people to judge whether or not I've represented this area well.

The feedback I've had so far has been overwhelmingly positive. So I look forward to just getting out to all the different areas of the riding once again and getting the chance to talk to more people and meet with people again as I've done over the last little while and just keeping the momentum going."

Does having a new party like the Maverick Party present more of a challenge this time around versus 2019?

"It doesn't matter who's running; it's always a challenge. But I think the big thing is that people know that there are only two parties in this country that have a chance at forming a government; that's the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. So these other parties can say whatever they want because they won't ever have to be accountable to it because again, they're never going to form a government.

So I think that maybe that part of it can be a little bit of a challenge; they can just say whatever they want, it'll go by unchecked whereas we have a shot at forming a government.

When we look at the polling recently to see where we're at, we're statistically tied with the Liberals by a lot of polls released here on Monday. So we have a real shot at forming a government and we're going to continue to push hard for that. I think the shot in the arm came from Nova Scotia with the Conservatives beating the Liberals there, and not just barely beating them, but they won a majority government, and they came from way behind in the polls to win that majority. That was unexpected.

So it's great to see and it's a great momentum boost for us and again I think the numbers are starting to bear that out people sense why Justin Trudeau called this election which is for his own selfish political gain and people aren't too thrilled with that. And they see us and the things that we're working on as being a solid viable alternative and that we've got some very clear differentiating policies from the Liberals. People are resonating with that and it's starting to reflect in our numbers."