CKDM News Now is continuing its profiles of each of the candidates in the Riding Mountain Constituency for Monday's federal election.
The last time that the Parkland region was represented in Ottawa by the Liberal party was from 1993 to 1997, when Marlene Cowling served as the Member of Parliament for what was at the time known as the Dauphin-Swan River constituency.
Terry Hayward is hoping to change that as of April 28th.
"The Liberal party has always been interested in this riding. But to be honest, rural candidates in Manitoba have always been difficult to find. I have been a candidate before. This is my fifth run as a candidate in a rural Manitoba riding. Riding Mountain is a beautiful riding, great people, and I see change happening here."
Hayward last ran federally for the Liberals in the 2019 federal election in the Brandon-Souris riding.
A resident of Anola, Hayward may not live in the Riding Mountain riding, but he knows the issues here are similar to his home area.
"This is a rural riding, and we share all of the same issues concerning rural ridings, anywhere small towns and rural ridings. We have housing issues, crime issues, food price issues, the common issue of what is happening to us south of the U-S border and people travelling. So I think there is a commonality there."
The Manitoba Election Readiness chair for the Liberal Party, Hayward is also a substitute teacher at an elementary school in the Sunrise School Division.
Hayward says it is time once again for the Riding Mountain constituency to be represented within a Liberal government, this time headed by Mark Carney.
