SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN - Travis Patron has entered the race to be the next member of Parliament for the Souris-Moose Mountain riding.
According to the Elections Canada website, Patron, who hails from Redvers, is listed as an independent candidate for Souris-Moose Mountain for the upcoming federal election. His status on the website is listed as confirmed.
Patron was the founder of the now-defunct Canadian Nationalist Party. He ran in Souris-Moose Mountain for the party in the 2019 federal election and finished last among the six candidates.
Since that time, he has been charged with and convicted of several criminal offences, including assaulting two women, wilfully promoting hate against Jewish people, criminal harassment and impersonating a peace officer.
Patron is the sixth candidate to join the race in the constituency. The others are Steven Bonk of the Conservative Party of Canada, Lyndon Dayman of the Canadian Future Party, Aziz Mian of the Liberal Party of Canada, Sheena Muirhead Koops of the New Democratic Party and Remi Rheault of the Green Party of Canada.
They are vying to replace Robert Kitchen of the Conservative Party, who announced last year he would not seek re-election.
The People's Party of Canada, which ran a candidate in Souris-Moose Mountain the last two elections, does not have a candidate for the riding on its website or on the Elections Canada site. The party had someone at the start of the campaign, but that person is no longer listed.
The deadline to file a nomination for the election was April 7 at 2 p.m. Sask time. Candidates then had three hours to withdraw. The final list of confirmed candidates is to be released on April 9.
