Monday, September 9, 2019 ~ LANGFORD
by Mary Brooke ~ West Shore Voice News
Today Alana DeLong has been door knocking in Langford. She’s the Conservative candidate for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford in the federal election campaign leading up to the October 21 election.
She meets a variety of voter demographics at the doorstep, handing out her campaign material. But some common themes emerge, including the economy and people living on fixed incomes.
DeLong lists off intergovernmental relations as one of her top issues, as well as the economy and where investments are being placed (too much investment leaving Canada). She hopes for strength in the resource industries. She notes the “inability to get things done” as a problem with the current Liberal government.
A young age 71, Delong is still going strong. She has experience as a former Alberta MLA (four terms as the MLA for Calgary-Bow). She lives on Thetis Island.
She says that dropping GST on home heating is a good idea in the Conservative platform, as well as dropping the carbon tax “for most of Canada”. She thinks CPP should be funded over a longer period, as people are living much longer than when the Canada Pension Plan was first started.
Her campaign material calls DeLong “an effective and experienced Conservative legislator” and promotes Andrew Scheer’s environmental plan to focus on big emitters and technology; jobs and opportunities for families from a strong economy, with a focus on investment; promoting freedoms of conscience and religion, thought, belief, opinion and expression — “we need to be able to disagree”.
The Conservative platform says Canada would be safer by “fighting organized crime while protecting law-abiding firearm owners”.