I'm a longtime resident of the area, and I've been married to fifteen years to Christine and have two children, Isla and Colin. I ran for the Manitoba Liberals in the 2009 Elmwood By-Election, and I've worked in the community on various issues, such as keeping community centres open and improving infrastructure planning.
I'm a longtime resident of the area, and I've been married to fifteen years to Christine and have two children, Isla and Colin. I ran for the Manitoba Liberals in the 2009 Elmwood By-Election, and I've worked in the community on various issues, such as keeping community centres open and improving infrastructure planning.
Age: 39
Profession: I work in a senior role on a DevOps Engineering Team for a large Canadian retailer, and have also worked in education, consulting, and writing.
About You
What is the biggest issue facing your community, and how would you address it?
I would say that the biggest issue in Elmwood and East Kildonan right now is healthcare, with the meth crisis being a close and related second. The goal of myself and the Manitoba Liberals is to increase front-line support, both to medical staff and to community organizations that are already making a difference in health and safety of the community. We need both long-term plans and immediate support.
Why did you decide to run for office?
I feel that it is important to break the back-and-forth cycle between spending without a plan and slashing without a plan, and to provide Manitobans with the option of working through our problems with policies based on existing research and current successful outcomes. It can sound great to say that a government is putting a large burst of funding in an area, or that the government is looking to trim fat, but when all of these actions are done with no long-term planning and short-term re-evaluation of the plan based on both successes and failures, it leads to the flat-tire governments that we've had since at least Gary Filmon in the 1980s.
Manitoba is marking its 150th anniversary next year. Suggest one way we can make it a memorable occasion.
I'd like to see Manitoba's 150th marked with the creation of a committee of a diverse cross-section of Manitobans, including representatives from all parties and all regions, tasked with taking a bird's eye view of Manitoba, to compare to our past and to our neighbours and to make note of what is working well and what is lagging. I believe a non-partisan State of our Province would help us keep track of how well we are doing.
Tell us something about yourself that voters might find surprising.
I'm known in some circles for my excellent pancake making, and in others for my science fiction novels, but I have never combined the two into a book on creating the perfect pancake.
Find out more about Regan Wolfrom, Liberal, Elmwood:
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