New Maverick federal party plans local information meetings Saturday

Apr 23, 2021 | 4:22 PM

The new Maverick Federal Party will have some information meetings in North Battleford on Saturday, April 24.

Three individuals sessions are planned for the Don Ross Centre at Room 107 at 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. The organizers are asking people who plan to attend to RSVP in advance by texting: 306-823-3522.

The Party’s Deputy Leader Allan Kerpan spoke to battlefordsNOW about the fledgling party that hopes to gain some supporters.

“We’re basically an eight-month-old new federal party that is bound and determined that we are going to forge a new deal for the West, either in Confederation as it exists, and we would do that through constitutional changes and negotiation,” he said. “But if that’s unworkable, then our other plan is that we would try to forge an independent West that is outside of what the current Confederation is.”

According to its website, the Maverick Party evolved from the WEXIT Movement, which was started by a small group of disenchanted Western Canadians who “wanted to produce positive and lasting change for the future of the West.”

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Kerpan explained the Maverick Party is running a type of “twin-track approach,” to either negotiate for change or create their own new deal.

He said the party is not running against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole, or Federal NDP Party leader Jagmeet Singh, but rather “we’re running against the system.”

“Lots of people tell me the system is broken,” Kerpan said. “The system is not broken. It was never set up to work for any degree of fairness for those of us who live in the West. That’s our goal. We’re hopefully going to elect some Members of Parliament to go to Ottawa with only one thing in mind, and that’s the best interest of those of us who live in the West. It’s that simple.”

During the North Battleford events, Kerpan plans to talk about some of the history leading up to the formation of the federal Maverick Party in the West as well.

“I’d like to spend a little time hopefully bringing some hope for those of us who live here,” he said.

– with files from Grant Schutte

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Angela.Brown@pattisonmedia.com

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by battlefordsNOW Staff

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