Full text of the announcement can be read below the video link.

I’m Frank Vaughan, and I have sought and received the nomination to be the Peoples’ Party Of Canada candidate for the 2019 federal election in Northumberland Peterborough South.

I came to the decision to apply just last Sunday after much soul searching, and received approval only yesterday.

I did it for many reasons, some of which I will now lay out.

First and foremost is the birth of my first child. He represents the highest form of accountability I have ever had to face. I will have to look him in the eye, as a baby, as a toddler, as a child, a teenager, and finally as an adult, and I will only be able to meet that gaze evenly if I know that I did the best I could to secure his future.

I did it as a response to the multiple (and very real) efforts to destroy me.

In the past months I have experienced everything from people trying to scare me through slander and threats of violence, to a literal sting operation conducted on behalf of unknown political agents to try to get me to agree to commit a crime, and thus ruin me through an exercise in legal entrapment.

If I had not experienced these things myself, I would not have believed they were possible.

People say the world of politics is incredibly dirty and I now know personally just how true that is, and I want to stand with people committed to doing it differently.

I did it because Canadian politics has been a black morass of political parties offering nothing but rhetorical choices for decades, while under the hood all parties advance the same agenda. An Agenda that often comes not from Ottawa, or the provinces, but from New York and the United Nations.

I did it because it was Mulroney who gave us Agenda 21 in 1992, and accelerated the fire sale of the majority of Canada’s gold reserves while speeding the massive accumulation of national debt, both trends first created by Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

I did it because it was Chretien and Martin who shifted into overdrive the carving up of this nation, selling it to China and other international interests without a care for its effect on future generations of Canadians.

I did it because it was Stephen Harper who continued all those trends, from increasing our national debt to selling off ever more of the nation not just to China, but also to the House of Saud, and others.

It was Harper who gave us bill C-16, and it was under his watch that the violation of gunowner’s fundamental rights and privileges in High River took place, and it was he who delivered us further to the UN by signing us onto Agenda 2030 as one of his last acts as Prime Minister.

I did it because it was Trudeau Jr. who gave us M-103, C-48, C-71, C-75, C-69, the prosperity killing, redistributionist Paris Climate Treaty, the sovereignty killing Global Compact on Migration, and who sold us out at any price in pursuit of a United Nation’s Security Council Seat to name but a few of his legacies.

I did it because Andrew Scheer promises to meet those same commitments, and keep most of Trudeau’s policies intact, talking tough rhetoric, but promising on paper to change almost nothing substantive.

For instance: Scheer has delivered a promise to finish Trudeau’s mission of getting that Security Council Seat. Scheer refuses to commit to repealing Trudeau’s 600 million dollar media slush fund. Scheer offers a Global Compact on Migration compliant immigration policy, while claiming he can somehow still be against it.

Scheer campaigned on getting us out of the Paris Climate Treaty, yet his first act as leader of the CPC was to whip a vote in favour of it, and now he fights to be seen as the leader of the party best positioned to meet the UN’s mandates through the Paris requirements instead of representing the mandates, and the interests, of Canadians first.

These men all have one thing in common: They have each weakened Canada by any definition one can choose.

They play a game of rhetoric, vying for victory in a vain horse race where the track is the same, the rules are fixed, and the outcome thus entirely restricted.

Where, I ask, is the representation for those who want to play a new game?

I did it because there is no difference between the direction that all the mainstream parties wish to take us, from the Greens to the Liberals. They argue over what flavor of Kool-Aid they will force down our throats, while my thirst cannot be quenched except by a different drink altogether.

Their Kool-Aid is UN mandated socialism, while all I want a healthy draft of Canadian sovereignty, and a resurgence of national identity and pride.

I did it because I want a choice. I did it because I want a change of direction. I did it because I want to put Canada First for the first time in generations, and I will make no apologies for it. Our country is superior to many, and I wish to be part of a movement that declares one of its primary goals to be maintaining that superiority for all of our people of every race, colour, and creed, even if that maintenance comes at the expense of our so-called global commitments.

Canada First, to me, means Canada First.

I did it because I want the nation to see Maxime Bernier in the national debates this fall. I want them to see what a leader looks like. I want them to see what choice looks like. I want that to happen so much that I choose now to stick my head above cover and take this risk, with all that it entails.

I did it, and I hope that others will do it too. We, the imperfect humanity left out of the political dialogue for so long, will now stand up in spite of our flaws as the average Canadian banging on the doors of Parliament.

For Canada to mean anything we must rediscover the true patriot love once placed in all thy son’s command, and risk some of what we cherish so that it will be there to cherish for our children.

In spite of my happy life, with my beautiful wife, and the first born of what I hope are many babies just now arrived. In spite of the quiet solitude and freedom of my farm, which has delivered to me a life of happy, fulfilling work, and endless contentment.

In spite of a life that I could lose myself in for the rest of my days, dying a happy man at some far off future date with a smile on my face, the need to do something to preserve the potential for others to discover that potential which I have discovered in myself, as a citizen of this country, now motivates me to risk what I have, and if I have to, leave it for Ottawa.

I don’t do this for want, for I have few of those. I do it out of a sense of what is right. Out of a sense of duty.

I once read a saying in a book: “Duty is heavier than a mountain, death light as a feather.” I did not understand it at the time, but I understand it now. I took it fatalistically then, but what it symbolizes is the happy man sacrificing some of that happiness for the greater cause. For the duty.

I did it because the Western provinces are being ripped off through equalization, and only the PPC under Maxime Bernier’s leadership is courageous enough to talk about it.

I did it because he is the only leader in Ottawa talking about ending all Foreign Aid, and prioritizing the needs of Canadians, over those of the world.

I did it because Maxime is a free speech maximalist at a time when the governments of the world, and indeed the technocracy of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest, are doing everything they can to stifle it.

I did it because Maxime has a plan to honour the constitution.

I did it because the PPC is the only party listening to Canadians.

I did it because any hope that exists of truly modernizing and reforming our laws, and our political institutions, to enhance regional representation and strengthen confederation rests entirely with the PPC.

I did it because I am Canadian, and the Canadians I admire run towards the fire, not away from it.

I did it, in the end, because it is the right thing to do, and politics needs to be far more about right and wrong, and far less about right and left.

I did it not for myself, nor for any desire for attention or power, but because I can do it. Because I should do it. Because there is an unanswered need.

My life is already an exercise in self actualization. My wants have always been humble. Materially, a used car that starts and is safe to drive, hot water coming out of the shower at the end of a hot, sweaty, day, and some AC in the summer, are the heights of the luxuries I seek. Happiness to me is assessed in the time spent doing the things I love, and almost everyday has been a fulfilling day by that metric for a long, long time.

It is precisely that happiness that drives me to this. It is that fulfillment that drives me to step outside the comfort zone that created it and try to do something greater than my current self.

It is the potential I have discovered in the life I’ve lived in this great nation which motivates me to try and preserve that potential in yours.

And that is why I am running for Federal Parliament in 2019.

I will have more to say in coming days. There are big developments and exciting things for the party to announce, and I encourage all those who love this nation to tune in and pay attention.

This is a movement, and with your help, we can restore confederation to all its potential and promise.

Thank you.