Seymour launches federal campaign

By Jennifer Smith - Vernon Morning Star Published: September 19, 2008

Darren Seymour is taking another shot at drawing votes from the area’s political landscape. But instead of joining North Okanagan Shuswap candidates as an independent, like he did during the 2006 federal election, this time Seymour is running for the Canadian Action Party. “One of our main goals this election is we want to wake people up,” said the 40-year-old Lumby resident. “We’re being lied to on a massive scale.” Seymour says along with the lies, there are a lot of white lies – issues citizens aren’t being told. One example, he says, is that 9-11 was carried out by elements inside the U.S. He also says that the Gulf War syndrome soldiers are being diagnosed as having is really from their exposure to depleted uranium. “It’s a pretty sad day when Canadians say I don’t care anymore because I can’t tell the difference between the truth and lies.” While a massive change is needed to change these feelings, Seymour says it starts with every individual. “We want Canadians to take personal responsibility and we want them to research the truth.”If they do that, Seymour says he will be elected.

“If people took personal responsibility and if in the next four weeks they did their research, the CAP would be the only choice.” And if that is the case, he will put 75 per cent of his salary into direct democracy, where citizens learn together and are counted and heard through votes. But what would make the biggest difference for the country is constitutional (government) created money, says Seymour. “The most crucial, sacred elements of a country is how its money is created,” he said, adding that Canada’s is being given away to private banks, not the Bank of Canada. Seymour, whose family has lived in the area since the late 1800s, received 359 votes (0.7 per cent) during the 2006 federal election, just ahead of Neville O’Grady, the CAP candidate at the time. When Seymour isn’t buried in his research, he trades stocks for a living. On the side, his hobbies centre around the environment: fishing, high mountain hiking, picking huckleberries and even creating his own bio-diesel. He encourages anyone who is interested in his message to help him campaign. Seymour is one of the five names slated to be voted on Oct. 14 for the 40th general election. They include: incumbent Colin Mayes for the Conservatives, Janna Francis for the Liberals, Alice Brown for the NDP and Green Party’s Huguette Allen.

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Don Quixote Note: You can vote for Seymour in the Poll on the right side of the blig.