Trevor Love went looking for a hobby and ended up running to be MLA.
Love, 35, is the father of four and a sales manager in the renovation industry. He’s running for the Alberta Party.
He said he and his wife had been talking about how Love needed a hobby. He’d gotten involved with the Alberta Party, and was asked to run in St. Albert. He said he was encouraged by a number of people to go in this direction, including former education minister David King.
“When she said get a hobby … I ended up running for political office. That’s a little bit more than a hobby,” Love said.
He said the Alberta Party speaks to who he is – fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
Love likes that if he does disagree with a party policy, he can speak out.
“The good thing about the Alberta Party and one of the things that appealed to me about them was that I’m able to disagree with my party and publicly disagree with my party,” Love said.
He and his wife moved to St. Albert a few years ago, after years of living close by in north Edmonton and Morinville, sending their kids to school here and shopping here.
“We always wanted to be here. It was our goal,” Love said.
If elected, he would want to hold the government to account to get the promised new schools built and make sure St. Albert’s getting what it needs. He pointed to the need to twin Ray Gibbon Drive and build a park and ride as examples.
“There’d be no shortage that I would think that we need to have done here,” he said. Love, as a commuter, knows what driving to Edmonton every day is like for many St. Albertans.
Love grew up in the Grande Prairie area and went to college there for commerce.
Aside from his political ambitions, Love said he doesn’t have much spare time between working and raising four children.
He encouraged voters to pick him in part because he’s young and full of enthusiasm, but also because of the Alberta Party’s policies around representation.
“I can represent them first and party second, and I can say that confidently,” Love said.
