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Martin Kendell

Independent candidate for Burnaby South

Affordability & Childcare

Cell & Internet Bills

The Big 3 telecommunications companies are making record profits and have no interest in providing competitive cell phone plans, internet access and cable bills that give Canadians a proper and collusion-free choice. The CRTC needs to act in the best interests of Canadians and bring cell phone plans and internet/cable bills in line with countries like the United States and Australia.

Childcare

We need to get the $10 A Day child care program running from coast to coast by September 2023. However, the $10 A Day option should be reserved for the lowest income families, with families who can afford a little more paying a moderate surcharge for their child care needs.

Climate Change & the Environment

Effects of Climate Change

Due to inaction by previous Liberal and Conservative governments, we are now at the point where global warming is causing unprecedented melting of polar ice & tundra, and Canadians are literally getting baked alive in extreme heat events from coast to coast. We need to transition to green energy solutions immediately and decrease our dependence on fossil fuel based industries as soon as possible.

Housing & Homelessness

Housing Prices

A five year moratorium on Canadian real estate purchases by foreign buyers would allow an opportunity for the overheated Canadian real estate sector to cool off, and give government agencies and the private sector an opportunity to increase supply to create a healthier balance for all Canadians.

Misc. topics

Elections

Effective Government should be about leadership, compromise and taking the best ideas from every party's platform and working for the benefit of all Canadians. That's why I endorse a multi-member proportional representation model that will give Canadians the opportunity to rank their preferential local candidates rather than choose just one option.

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Biography

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Martin has lived in Burnaby for over 20 years, and currently resides in the Burnaby South riding with his wife of 14 years and their twin children. He has worked for the City of Vancouver for 10 years and has been the Strata Council President for his building for over 10 years.

Reason for running

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Over the years, I have become disillusioned with the amount of corruption and lack of ethics when it comes to federal party politics, and find it depressing that the average voter can no longer cast a "protest vote" without voting for a political party.

By having to do this, you actually reward the political parties by funding their next political campaign with a government subsidy worth $2.50. While this doesn't seem like a lot of money, it adds up quickly when you multiply it by millions of voters who cast their ballots across Canada.

I don't think the Liberals should be rewarded for dissolving the 43rd Parliament of Canada and calling a snap election while the fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic is heating up.

I also think it is discourteous that the NDP parachuted their leader into Burnaby South in 2019 to get himself elected because we're a "safe NDP riding". The citizens in Burnaby South deserve better than an absentee MP who occasionally drops into the riding for a photo opportunity and to campaign for the NDP-friendly political parties.

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