(Submitted photo /Renee Grasby)

By Glenn Hicks

Election 2020

P.A. PCP candidate unfazed by election challenge

Oct 16, 2020 | 1:00 PM

The Progressive Conservative Party (PCP) candidate for Prince Albert Carlton says protecting Saskatchewan jobs is a key platform plank and says she’s not daunted by the challenge of helping to re-establish the party after decades out in the cold.

Renee Grasby, who works as an insurance adviser, was approached by a party member to run and accepted.

“I think this is a good time to run and to let people know we need a strong female advocate out there and I figured I could provide that for them,” she told paNOW.

When asked what she made of the big mountain all PCP candidates have to climb against the established two main political players (the governing Saskatchewan Party and opposition NDP), Grasby said she was unfazed.

“I guess any election it’s always a tough nut to crack between those two [parties]. I’ve had nothing but positive reinforcement from everybody I’ve spoken to in my constituency. I haven’t seen the mountains I have to climb,” Grasby said.

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The PCP has not won a seat since 1995 and secured just 1.3 per cent of the total provincial vote in 2016.

Party leader Ken Grey has attacked Scott Moe’s government for being “plagued by scandal, unanswered accountability, deficits and a record breaking $25 billion debt” and argues the Sask. Party wants the NDP to remain in opposition because the NDP are ineffective.

Among the PCP’s key platform areas are the introduction of citizen-initiated referendum legislation on issues such as separation, crown decisions, and morality; the development of a Saskatchewan Provincial police force; and responsible immigration.

Top of their agenda is the scrapping of the New West Trade Partnership Agreement.

“[That’s] so we can bring back Saskatchewan jobs; we need the jobs to stay in Saskatchewan,” Grasby said.

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