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By Marty Hastings

BC Votes

Seeing a potential vacancy in Kamloops-North Thompson, Cavers stepped forward for Green Party

Oct 7, 2024 | 5:30 PM

KAMLOOPS — Tristan Cavers of Chase is dipping his toe into provincial politics for the first time.

He’s an 11th-hour candidate for the Green Party in the Kamloops-North Thompson riding, entering the race against NDP candidate Maddi Genn and Conservative candidate Ward Stamer ahead of the Oct. 19 election.

Cavers is a third-generation farmer, along with a volunteer firefighter and first responder, and he’s on a leave from absence from working in the Thompson Nicola Regional Library system.

When no one stepped forward to represent the Green Party, he did so with his 10-year-old daughter in mind.

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“Health care is number one and I’m hearing a lot of misdirection. ‘We need to do patient-centered care’ and these different things,” Cavers told CFJC Today, “but bottom line, Lillooet’s emergency room was closed again over the weekend. We need more doctors. We need more nurses. We need to incentivize more medical students and more students to get into family [medicine].”

Cavers said his opposition seems interested in meme-based politicking and rage-farming, while he aims to find solutions in health care and resource extraction, with focus on forestry and mills.

Former Kamloops councillor Donovan Cavers, Tristan’s brother, is the BC Green Party candidate this year in the Kootenay-Monashee riding.

Tristan is reusing Donovan’s old signs, recycling them in a manner that fits with party values.

“I think I probably have more of a background in being a pain in politicians’ backsides. Since getting involved in the farm, I’ve done a lot less of that. When I was a university student here in town, I was quite active with looking to move things forward – more emphasis on the environment, more emphasis on a local economy and trying to move away from just straight resource extraction.”