NDP candidate in the Innisfail-Sylvan Lake by-election Nicole Mooney wants to keep education and health care progressing forward.
Mooney said she chose to run with the NDP because of the positive work the current provincial government has done for education and health care in the province.
By running for the MLA seat in the July 12 by-election, Mooney hopes to add her voice to those speaking out about health and education in the province.
“I believe in Rachel Notley and the work she has done and continues to do for our province,” Mooney said in a phone interview.
Mooney said she stepped forward to run for election because she felt she could be the best representative for the area.
She said the position of MLA has been vacant for long enough and wants to see the people she calls friends and family represented.
“This is my home, I am from here and I am raising my kids here. I care what is happening,” she said.
The Sylvan Lake resident is a teacher and believes strongly in continuing to enrich the education system and investing in the young people in the province.
She says the NDP will continue on the path they have set when it comes to education.
“I’m worried we will see the education system derailed by Jason Kenney and the UCP,” Mooney said.
Mooney sited education work done by the current government as the path she wants to see education for tomorrows leaders go down.
Schools have been opened, and grown under the NDP, says Mooney, not to mention the colleges that are going on to become universities.
She also says she wants to continue to promote and grow health care opportunities in the region.
“We have made a great step forward with the Advanced Ambulatory Care Services in Sylvan Lake, and I want to continue to see more done to help residents.”
Mooney says she will be the voice the riding needs in Edmonton to get things done and to see the residents of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake are heard in Legislature.