Beatrice Ghettuba is not a person held to ideology or dogma. As a chartered accountant, Ghettuba is trained to make decisions based on hard data and careful analysis.
Beatrice Ghettuba is not a person held to ideology or dogma.
As a chartered accountant, Ghettuba is trained to make decisions based on hard data and careful analysis.
“When practising risk management you always go to the root cause,” she said.
This is why the Liberal Party spoke to her. Rather than create policies mandated by right- or left-leaning platforms, she believes that the party will always implement what is best for the country and only after thorough evaluation.
“The Liberal Party, by its very essence, is governed by the centre and any policies are tested and evidence-based,” she said.
Born in Kenya, Ghettuba immigrated to Canada in 1998. She has called Alberta, and most recently Edmonton, home for the past decade.
Ghettuba started an accounting firm called K2Z in 2008. The firm focuses on small business and was also used as a training and mentoring ground by the Edmonton Region Immigrant Employment Council, which matches successful foreign-trained professionals with newcomers
“I would use my office for demonstrations, because when I came to the country, I wish somebody could have done that for me,” she said.
Between mentoring, chairing Alberta's Africa Centre and running her own business she keeps getting busier and busier.
“My life is getting very tight, but I enjoy what I do. When I'm meeting the community, sometimes they invite me to gatherings. Being there with different foods and listening to people and the challenges they have, I find that better fun,” she said.
And no matter how hectic her schedules gets she always makes time to play kickball with her two grandchildren.
Ghettuba's analytical thinking and understanding of the economic language will help her to critique government policies and relay the information accurately to her constituents.
Her priority upon taking office would be tackling the country's economic state by supporting the Liberals infrastructure-spending plan.
With oil prices down and no sign that they will recover any time soon, Ghettuba said now is not the time for Albertans to sit on their hands and wait
“I would like to see LRT joining the two cities,” she said of St. Albert and Edmonton.
“To me, the infrastructure in transit and all the sectors we have identified help to rejuvenate the economy. The economy has been stagnant for the last nine years. To get things moving again, you don't give people money, you put money where growth is,” she added.
