Our newsroom is profiling all seven candidates running in the riding of Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe.

This will be the first election for the Peoples Party of Canada.

PPC Candidate Steven Driver says he has voted for the past forty years as a Liberal. “However, about two years ago, I started seeing how the Liberal party was leaning so far, far, far to the left. I was always a very Progressive voter for Progressive policies. About two years ago, I was talking with all of my friends, and my wife told me I was starting to sound like a Politician. I am a small business and medium business owner and I have always been an entrepreneur. I never had any aspirations or ambitions of being in politics. I have seven children and 11 grandchildren, and I was looking at them, and something just inspired me to do something for their future. That is what inspired me to run for the Peoples Party of Canada.”

He says he has been knocking on a lot of doors and speaking to people, and based on what he has heard, he says he feels he is a serious competitor in this race.

He says after working thirty-one years working with drug addiction, alcoholism and disenfranchised people in institution, the opioid crisis in Moncton is just the beginning, “If you think it’s bad now, you haven’t seen anything yet. This epidemic started about 15 years ago in Vancouver and it has been moving its way East year after year. As people become more disenfranchised, and that opioid is made available, you are going to have more addicts on the streets, homeless. The federal government has failed in that respect to stop the flow of this drug at the port of entry and have allowed it to distribute throughout Canada.”

Driver says there there are 320 PPC candidates running across the country.

“I believe that the Peoples Party of Canada will grab about 13 to 14 per cent of the seats in Parliament. I believe those seats will be in New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta,” Driver says.

“I believe after this election, and we’re sitting in Parliament and Canadians see the effects and the honesty of our voice for Canadians and how we will not waiver off our platform, they’re going to recognize that there is a new party that is going to stand up for Canadians over the next four years. We’re willing to work with any minority government as long as it is within our platform. When I go to Ottawa for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, with a minority government situation, I will be in a unique position to speak on behalf of the people of this riding. I can get federal funding into this riding that is needed for the crisis we are experiencing, which is homelessness,” Driver says.