Green Party Candidate Jessica Wegg talks about the coming election

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -  Election fever seems to be in the air again and in the first of a series of interviews with the candidates, Cortes Currents talked with Jessica wig the green party candidate for North Island-Powell River.

“We have a chance now to show the world that we will not Follow the trend of electing conservative right wing governments out of fear because we're told that things are bad. We know that things are bad in some ways, but things are amazing and wonderful in so many other ways,” she exclaimed.

“If we just have our knee jerk reaction and say, the last government was liberal, they didn't work. Let's go over to the other side and give this. Conservative government a try, we're never going to advance the ball. We're just going to keep hitting it back and forth. What we need is a way through this mess. That is with each other, that is by voting with our hearts and knowing what is right, what we value, using our brains to look at the world around us and see what is happening and ask ourselves, what's the best way that I can try to make it through this?”

“Who's the best person to stand up for what I believe in, to represent me in Ottawa and that's the Greens. We have known this is coming. We've been shouting it from the rooftops, trying to get attention and now it's unavoidable. It's here, so I would encourage people to vote Green.”