Please to be joined on Halton News by the candidate representing the green party in Milton for the May 2nd by election Kyle Hutton. Thanks for doing this. Thank you very much Jason. Happy to be here. Well, I wanted to take this opportunity to let our viewers which are Milton voters to get to know you a little. So who is Kyle Hutton? So I and Tara Greens member, as mentioned, joined back in 2019. I was originally a liberal for a very long time. Was kind of upset by Justin Trudeau's several broken promises. That kind of shifted me towards the greens because I've always been a big environmental voter. I haven't looked back since I ran in 2022 in Burlington riding and when the Milton by election opportunity came up, I have spent a lot of my time working particularly with the folks in North Burlington. So kill bride, mountain, email, low bill areas like that, which is part of the Milton riding. And I said, you know what? I'd be more than happy to represent those folks as well as learn more about the community of Milton and Campbellville and run as part of McSchreiner's strong green team and hopefully add to our caucus to be our third member, tripling our original seat count in 2022. So you have run in Burlington before now you're shifting over to Milton. Where's home base for you? I'm so I'm just in North Burlington, just south of Dundas. So technically just outside of the riding, but Ward three, which is the Burlington, one of the Burlington words covers both where I live as well as everything North and Dundasics for a sliver near Applebee. I spent most of my local career working with Ward three residents. So I feel it was just a natural extension because Milton riding is not just a town of Milton. It's also North Burlington. A lot of those folks, especially when I'm going to the Doris feel they tend to feel left out. And I figured, you know what? I know a lot of their issues, especially around Nelson Quarry, which is linked really closely with the Campbellville Quarry issue. I figured, you know what? This is a good opportunity for me to run, represent their issues, make sure their voice gets heard as well as the folks in Campbellville and within the town of Milton for any number issues from the Campbellville Quarry's to housing to health care. Obviously you've named off a whole bunch of different issues that fall right into the green MO because there is so much green up in Milton, but two of the other names on the ballot on May 2nd will be Zeeshan, a mate of the conservatives, Galen, they do Harris of the Liberal Party. What's your strategy to pull voters away from these two individuals that are both very well known in the Milton community? Yeah, absolutely. So we just had debate last night actually with the House of David and the African Caribbean community of Hilton, where Zeeshan and Galen as well as Edie Stratch and the NDB can roll there. We had a wonderful talk, but there is a clear difference between all of us, particularly between myself and Zeeshan and him, who I think is a wonderful guy, but he's running for Doug Ford's team and Doug Ford has not kept his promises on, I get a number of issues from the Campbellville Quarry, which in May back in 2018 saying he would stop it to housing which he's acting like a gatekeeper to use a quote from a federal politician to health care. How he's brought forward, build 124, which has thankfully been shot down, but how he disrespects our health care workers and our education workers, leading to so many of them leaving the province of the sector. It's very clear there's a difference between our priorities as Greens and what Doug Ford's priorities are and Zeeshan, again, great guy, he's running for the wrong team in this instance. As for between myself and Galen, again, we have a lot of very similar platform points. However, the liberals, I'm going to be honest, I used to be a liberal, I'm not sure they fully learned a lesson from 2018. I think a lot of this is this, still thinking that they can get back in. They seem to be very cynical about it. This is why they have decided to backtrack suddenly on carbon pricing. Bonnie Croming announced last week that it was that she was going to pull back and there would be no carbon pricing on tario. Now she set up this nebulous committee to look into how they're going to deal with climate change. We had cap and trade prior. We've talked about carbon pricing for ages here. It's not the perfect solution, but it is an effective solution. But they just want a few extra points in the polls. Greens stick by our principles. We stick by our 2022 platform, which call for an increase on particularly industrial carbon price. And we're sticking by that now. We're not going to flip flop just again a little bit of favor because there's a popular slogan at the federal level. And I think that's the main difference. So Kyle, if you are elected, what's your first order of business? So first order of business, I want to move on the Campbellville Quarry. I want to get Doug Ford and the PCs to bring Ford MZO, which they have been more than willing to use for any number of projects to stop development of Campbellville Quarry. Full stop. They did it for the Dolan Quarry in Guelph way back in, I think it was 2019 or 2021. I can't remember exactly. They can do it for Campbellville Quarry. They can set up the more targeting that everybody has been asking for four years now to also stop the expansion at Nelson, Corey and North Burlington. Those are my first goals right away. Second, I get into Queens Park. That is my priority. But I also want to make sure we start moving on housing. I want to, if possible, reintroduce the bill that Mike Schreiner introduced for four clicks across the province that got shunted off the committee by the Ford government. They're doing the same thing with the same liberal bill. I want to reintroduce that until we actually get Doug Ford to stop being a gatekeeper on housing and start building as he promised in 2022. All right. And finally, I like to end all of my interviews with candidates by giving them the floor. Why should Milton Residence vote for you and the Green Party on May the second? I think the best thing to do is send Doug Ford a message. The bi-election is not going to change the balance of power at Queens Park. Whoever wins this, there's still going to be a Doug Ford majority government. So you can send a message and said to say, listen, the interior Greens, how the priorities people want on housing, on health care, on protecting our Greens faces, which Doug Ford had a lot of trouble doing, since he was reelected in 2022. We are a party that sets the trend on a lot of these issues. And we saw in Kitchener Center late last year with the election of action clansely doubling our caucus to two. How that message resonates. Imagine what we could do with the third member at Queens Park for the interior Greens, telling Doug to be called to his promises. There you have it Kyle. Appreciate your time this morning. Best of luck on May the second. Thank you very much Jason.