Shannon Stubbs Seeks Re-Election for Lakeland Riding Seat

Shannon Stubbs Seeks Re-Election for Lakeland Riding Seat

Emily Mailhot Reporter – Vegreville News Advertiser

After a four-year run as Member of Parliament representing the Lakeland Riding, Shannon Stubbs is back in the running for another federal election under the Conservative Party of Canada banner.

Stubbs considers herself a local representative of local people, having grown up south of Chipman, went to high school in Lamont. She was married in Vegreville and now lives with her husband on a farm west of Two Hills. She also cites her professional experiences working in the oil sands unit of the Alberta Dept. of Energy, as the coal lead on the Alberta Heavy Oil Project, and providing expertise across Canada and internationally as strengths that have helped her successfully represent rural Albertans for the past four years.

“I am very grateful to use that knowledge in my official capacities. It has been a strength to know firsthand how policy and legislation impact jobs and the people in the industry.”

From her time in Parliament, Shannon Stubbs is known for her fight against the Case Processing Centre closure in Vegreville (which led to fights for other federal services in small communities), her service as Minister of Natural Resources, her peeraward as MP who best represents her constituents, and the member bill she put forward with support from all parties, which focused on combating rural crime, but was “shot down in committee”.

“I pride myself in working really hard to make sure that I am visibly fighting for the values and needs of the people of the communities in Lakeland. I am committed to making a difference for them. For an MP in her first term, I hope that I’ve proven myself to be a passionate, dedicated, driven MP in the riding.”

Stubbs reflects on lessons she has learned thus far; “The number one problem with this current government is that they are completely out of touch with rural Canadians. Their focus is on cities, big cities, in certain parts of the country. I believe that if they [Liberals] are re-elected they will put Canada in unprecedented economic risk and non-unity. Their divisive policy-making and consistent attacks on Alberta, in particular, have been irrevocably damaging, and will only get worse with more time.

“In this campaign, as we have over 4 years, we have talked about the ways to make life less expensive for Canadians. Scheer hears it all over Canada, I hear all over Lakeland from people with family and businesses: everyone is struggling to make ends meet. Personal debt is astronomically high and is exacerbated by 100,000 jobs that have been lost. Going forward, the Conservative focus is on putting forward policies that will give relief to Canadians who are struggling to make ends meet.”

The final point that Stubbs wanted to express to voters for the upcoming election was regarding agriculture.

“It was talked a lot about it at the forum. I hear from farmers and producers in the area, that they feel they are not on the radar in Ottawa. The only party who has been fighting for farmers, Western in particular, has been Conservatives.

We will keep fighting for producers too, and Trudeau’s bungling with other countries has hurt producers more than other parts of the country. With other countries, we know that costs are going up for farmers and that there is a lot of ideological decision making that is making things harder for them so I hope we will continue talking about farm families and Canadian agriculture federally.”