By Kellah Lavoie

NDP is making gains: Mushinski

Mar 27, 2011 | 3:33 PM

Valerie Mushinski is ready to hit the campaign trail.

The NDP candidate for Prince Albert said her team is ready to go.

“We’re hitting the road right away and getting out and talking with people about the issues,” she said.

“There certainly are issues that have come to me already and that certainly is all around affordable housing and accesses to health care, the ethical dilemma that our Parliament seems to have gotten itself into and the contempt of Parliament that caused our government to fall.”

She said the issue of contempt of Parliament has raised a lot of questions in her constituency and is “resonating very, very strongly amongst voters.”

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She said it is a big deal that Parliament was dissolved over the finding of contempt and the people of her riding know it.

Mushinski said she needs to find out what is on people’s minds and what she can bring back to the NDP for ideas and suggestions.

She has been hard at work for several months and said people will be able to see her presence in the city soon.

“We have that campaign infrastructure… that’s all ready to go,” she said.

“We’re ready and willing and more than able to campaign for the next five weeks.”

While in the last five elections Prince Albert has produced a Conservative MP, Mushinski isn’t concerned.

She said the NDP made major gains in the last election, collecting about 30 per cent of the vote. She said she was “quietly victorious.”

“We do have a following and we just need to get more people voting.”

Mushinski said she believes if more people come out and vote she has a solid chance at coming out on top.

“It’s a very small part to play… it’s the most important part to play in our democracy. If we don’t vote we don’t have a democracy,” she said.

“I believe if people come out of vote I’ll be your next MP.”

klavoie@panow.com