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After five years of working in various roles with the National Farmers' Union, the Paisley farmer and his wife, Sarah Slater, opted to focus more time on their family and farming business. Ilowever, the troubles in Ottawa were too much for Rob- ertson and his family to ignore and once again he decided to fight for the concerns of the rural residents in iluron Bruce. Since winning the nomination in Sep- tember, Robertson has been trav- elling the riding, heading door-to- door to gauge the mood of the constituents. "Ottawa is the problem," he said of what he is hearing in his travels. "We need to fix Ottawa or we're never going to get things done. We're going to always be in this problem all the time," He sees an opportunity for change in this election. While a lot of money has been put into the riding through during the last government, Robertson argues the Harper Conservatives have not done nearly enough to fix the long-term problems racing the municipalities in Huron Bruce, "If you talk to the mayors across the riding as I have, there are still lots of basic infrastructure that has to be done," he said, "That's the Job of the MP. Every MP works that way, whether they're with the governing party or not. So just because someone has done one part of their job doesn't mean that they're necessarily doing all parts of their job." Robertson added, it was not until the Harper government was threatened with losing power did it begin to spend money on communities. The NDP platform looks to appeal Canadians facing a tough time financially, redistributing money the party believes has been spent unwisely by the Grant Robertson Conservatives. One of the lead anchors of this platform is lk pledge to bring every senior o of poverty, by raising the Guaran- teed Income Supplement (GIS). "In the last year figures are available, the tax cut portion that year that went to the banks was $800 million," Robertson said. "Tb raise every senior in Canada out of poverty would cost $700 million." Taxes do not have to go up to see these NDP programs come to fruition, Robertson added. "We have to look at where we're spending our money," he said. "We're putting $60 billion over the last number of years to corporate tax cuts. A corporate tax cut wouldn't be such a bad thing if it was tied to (creating jobs)" Robertson is calling for the next round of corporate tax cuts, scheduled for Ian. 2012, to be eliminated and re -invested in other areas, such as health care. Robertson said an NDP govern- ment would invest in people and communities, not insiders and cronies, which would pay for the programs proposed in its platform. "If you look at the govern- ment's own figures, for every dol- lar in corporate tax cuts, they esti- mate that it works out to about 30 cents in spending in the econ- omy," Robertson said, "For every dollar we invest in things like health care, that works out to about a $1.60 in spending in our economy. You get a far bigger bang for your buck." With the exception of the 1990 provincial election, Huron Bruce has never returned an NDP can- didate to parliament. The riding has almost exclusively been rep- resented by the Conservative party and its predecessor, outside of the recent 15 years of Paul Steckle's Liberal representation, since its creation. But Robertson believes the constituents respect an MP who will stand up for the riding, rather than being an "Ottawa yes-man." "My role as an MP will always be to go to Ottawa and fight for our needs, it doesn't matter whose in government," he said "It may make me the world'. worst politician, but 1 don't care who gets credit; I don't care at all about political gains, in fact, I find them offensive. "I care about getting things done; that's what drives me," Robertson added. "That's what brought me out of having that family time we were looking for- ward to."