BIOGRAPHY
I was brought up in a Mennonite family between Elmira and Drayton on a farm. I have a bit of farming experience. I owned my own business in Kitchener for 22 years, first called Stainless Lifetime Exhaust and then Weber’s Automart.
I know the weight small businesses carry carrying our country. I have interest in politics and I have had that in me for quite some time.
I believe I am a good politician because my standard for right and wrong is not myself, but my Creator God. Having said this, I see myself as Jesus’ ambassador first and secondly councillor. Regarding injustices, I believe nobody should get away with any injustice thought, word or deed. I care how people feel and believe in fairness, caring and accountability.
BIGGEST ISSUE
I believe the most important issue is the family’s finances right now in North Perth. Every family needs to budget their money. If we don’t have the money to buy something, just don’t buy it until you have the money.
Now that printing money is legal in our country we are essentially being stolen from through inflation. Groceries and houses are priced through the roof. New couples more and more are going to have to live their first several years in someone’s basement as cheap as possible to eventually have a down payment for a house, and then that couple needs to stick their heads together to buy and keep paying the mortgage of what is here to buy. Talk about perplexity. It’s really sad. It’s the result of higher ups not balancing the cheque book for years.
Now comes our children’s pay time. We all now have to work harder and harder every year to have the same amount of money left in our bottom line. This weighs on my heart. As a councillor I can hear the pain of the next generation and hopefully defer the pain higher up.
I have expectation that I can shine this little spot of the planet just a little bit better, so after my four years there will be some more breathing space here in North Perth. Hopefully get more of the poor here learning a skill and turning a profit and learn to work together as a common unity in our neighbourhoods. I hope to attract some good businesses here that can pay well so that we leave money in North Perth and bless families with good-paying jobs.
It’s going to be a great time the next four years to be your public servant as councillor.
