In the final part of our five question series with local candidates running in Monday's Federal Election we asked members of the Green, NDP, Liberal, Christian Heritage and Conservatives how roles of power should be allocated in the House of Commons whether it's MP's or the Prime Minister himself.

John Barlow, Conservative: "I think it has to be reduced and we've already done that, I know some people were paying close attention to that last year we past the 'Reform Act' in the spring it was the last pieces of legislation that were able to get through the senate. What that does, is that gives more power to not only members of parliament but also to our EDA's. I think it's a return to grassroots politics which was something I supported and voted in favour of and what the reform act does, it allows members of parliament to recall powers to our leaders whether its on the Conservative side or Liberal or NDP. I think it's important that members of parliament have a stronger voice but it shows that their residents and their board has a stronger voice as well."

Alison Thompson, NDP:

"It's an easy question for the NDP to answer, I think a lot of us over the past almost decade and certainly the past four years of Stephen Harper have been amazed and alarmed nut amazed in a negative way. We've had things that we've never had before, these repetitive instances of prorogue and what is that? How come we're behaving like a kingdom in a sense there's a dictator at the top and that's a very strong word but I think a lot of people feel that way. Now we have elected officials but its about one person, and elected officials, myself included I really would like to turn people's ideas around to this is a job interview and I'm the best candidate for this job. I have the skills it takes to make our way through this recession and to get to a better place not just tomorrow but for the next part of Canada's history, and the idea that people put their honour and trust into an individual and that individual not able to represent their constituency well or exert their own expertise or influence is a big concern and I don't think that Canada is acting like the Canada that people think it is and absolutely the party doesn't agree with concentrating power in something call the PMO Office."

Tanya MacPherson, Liberal:

"I think that we have seen an abuse of power in the last number of years and we will want to have a reduction in power of the Prime Minister's Office, Justin Trudeau is very much a person looking for grassroots input. Members of Parliament bring their constituenents views and needs to the government and they need to be listened to, we need to have a voice and the people need to be heard. This Prime Minister seems to not be listening and the Liberals and Justin in the past said that he wants to limit the powers of the Prime Minister's Office."

Romy Tittel, Green Party: "The PMO's office right now is a 10 million dollar little corporation and under the Harper government he has expanded the PMO's office to such a degree that is actually almost bordering on illegal. The Green Party absolutely is going to reduce that by half right off the bat and start making it about the parliamentary procedures being used and that the members of parliament are the ones who are making the laws of this land and not what's being done in the PMO's office. As far as the power of members of parliament I think we have lots of power it's just that it's being taken away from us into the PMO's office and it's not a good direction and the Green Party will turn that right around."

Marc Slingerland, Christian Heritage Party:

The Prime Ministers office is far too powerful. The reason for that is our current first past the post system where only one MP, the plurality of votes not even necessarily the majority in each riding, gets elected. That's led to a very adversarial parliamentary system. Power is concentrated in the Prime Ministers office so we are advocates, we've worked for a long time, been part of Fair Vote Canada working for proportional representation, a system like that where you actually need to work with other parties. All of the parties have good things in their platforms so there's no reason we can't work together and it's been looked at as a zero sum game in the last number of years largely because of that power in the PMO. Absolutely, MP's should be representing their constituents first and their party label is just a convenience, it doesn't mean that's their identity."

Other candidates in the riding were contacted and unavailable for comment.

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