Story:I would like to congratulate Alex Atamanenko for posting his parliamentary expenses. It is the right thing to do! Well done Alex!

Now, if I read the numbers correctly, Alex is spending $518,000 per year to run his operation in the riding plus his salary and benefits? That would be approximately $2 million over the past four years. So the question you need to ask, are we getting good value for the money?

Let’s look at Alex’s record:

• mills and plants closed;

• schools and hospitals closed due to lack of job creation:

• postal services closed;

• voted against the federal budget that provided Celgar with $57 million of federal funding for the new green co-gen plant and expansion;

• attempted to stop the Celgar funding over a municipal tax issue;

• continues to vote against C-391, the abolishment of the long gun registry;

• “… he’d prefer people hold off on contacting him”, when their children where trapped in Haiti; as there was nothing he could do. – KBS News 01-15-2010

Thankfully, we had Stockwell Day and the Prime Minister working for you!

Let’s look at my record:

• created 13 positions at our family business

• helped create hundreds of jobs at our clients’ businesses

Since winning the nomination in November:

• helped Red Mountain secure their Western Diversification funding; Alex could not!

• helped Nelson get their Order in Council for their historic railway station; Alex could not!

• working on economic development plan for Area E.

• working on economic development plan in Midway.

This has all been done part time well I continue to run our family business. We can accomplish much more together when I start full time.

The choice is yours!