(Submitted Photo/Dale Richardson)

By Julia Lovett-Squires

Richardson Buffalo Party

Dale Richardson: the Battlefords Buffalo Party candidate

Oct 15, 2024 | 1:55 PM

A new candidate is leaning in on his experience as a mechanical engineering technologist to help him in serving the people of the Battlefords.

Dale Richardson has filed his candidacy with the Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan. He said their focus on the preservation of families aligns with his beliefs.

“They’re not supporting families to thrive in Canada,” he said of the current government.

“We wouldn’t have a population issue if they made it more affordable for people to have kids.”

Some of the areas Richardson said he wanted to focus on included allowing people to be free and have the right to live and work without the federal government encroaching. Bringing back local industry and businesses rather than having it outsourced to other countries is another focus and he said provincial law enforcement is key – as the RCMP has no jurisdiction.

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Quoting Article 6 Section 92 Subsection 14 of the Constitution Act in 1867, he said only the provinces have legislative control over justice and law enforcement.

“When they contract the RCMP? Ottawa controls the RCMP, not Saskatchewan. According to the constitution, that’s not lawful,” he said.

“Regardless of the RCMP Act, the division of powers in the constitution supercedes the RCMP Act.”

Richardson said local policing is the way forward.

“If we don’t have law enforcement, what are we going to have? Might is right? No, that’s not going to work.”

As part of his mechanical engineer technologist training, one of the things they focus on is overlooking systems and finding improvements. Richardson said because of this skill set, those in that industry often find themselves in other fields.

“We have a lot of things in the government systems and processes that need to be made to work better,’ he said. “They’re very inefficient.”

As such, part of the party’s platform is to remove redundancies to help reduce taxes.

“More people can keep money in their pockets, keep a smaller government and make it more efficient and then the private sector will thrive,” he said.

“Why would we want to burden down people?”

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