People's party candidates in Windsor-Essex say they're 'the only alternative'
CBC
People's Party of Canada candidates in Windsor-Essex are looking to position the party as an alternative to the mainstream political parties — including the Conservatives.
Beth Charron Rowberry, who is running in Essex, said the Liberals, NDP, Tories and Greens are all promising a similar vision.
"Their platforms are all spending billions of dollars that we don't have...We're the only party that is leaning to the right."
Windsor–Tecumseh candidate Victor Green similarly described the party as "the only alternative."
"If you take the three mainstream parties...and you put their leaders in a bag, and you shook the bag up and you poured them out, you wouldn't be able to tell one from the other," he said.
The third local candidate for the PPC, Matthew Giancola in Windsor West, declined an interview.
The People's Party of Canada began as a right-wing fringe party that barely registered on the electoral radar in its first general election — receiving just 1.6 per cent of the popular vote in 2019, and winning no seats.
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