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By Cam Lee

SUP candidate

Saskatchewan United Party names candidate for Carrot River Valley

Jul 30, 2024 | 3:46 PM

Another local candidate has thrown their hat into the ring for the upcoming provincial election.

The Saskatchewan United Party (SUP) has announced Shauna Stanley Seymour will represent the party in the Carrot River Valley constituency.

“Why I’m running is simply that people are hurting,” Seymour told northeastNOW. “Young people are struggling to get their futures started and seniors…no longer have reassurance that there will be comfort at the end of their lives, and the people in between are just exhausted.”

Seymour said she’s disappointed at the political games with few results and even less accountability. Having previously lived in Regina, Seymour said she had familiarity with how politics work.

“I’ve been often asked to run and I… decided that enough was enough and that I had no other excuses, so here I am,” Seymour explained.

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Shauna grew up on her family’s homestead north of Tisdale, and she and her husband Lloyd now farm there. While she has lived in several different places throughout her life, Seymour said she always considered the Carrot River Valley home.

Seymour considers the area a powerhouse.

“Between forestry, agriculture, tourism, so many other things and all the supporting industries, young families, senior citizens, everyone in between, this was a great place to grow up and I can’t imagine advocating for any people as worthy as this area where I grew up. I love it here.”

Seymour gravitated toward the SUP as she feels the Saskatchewan Party has abandoned their ideals and principles under which they were formed. She said the SaskParty simply stopped listening.

“Sask United is hope; it’s a reset,” said Seymour.

She added people are tired of politics and political parties just squabbling over who can spend more money, and how to make every issue political in nature.

“Saskatchewan United is about common-sense solutions that people can make sense of,” Seymour said. She went to SUP town halls and found that the party wants to listen to everyone, and not just a few people that get a say.

“People are hurting, and they need somebody who’s going to sit there and try to figure out how to make things better, not make things harder.”

The Saskatchewan election will be held Oct. 28.

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Cam.lee@pattisonmedia.com

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