There will be a familiar face on the federal election campaign trail.
William Caton is running for the Liberal Party in Swift Current-Grasslands-Kindersley.
"We're so conservative where I live in the southwest corner," Caton said. "I really don't like (Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre)'s attitude about things or his policies. I just thought it was time to stand up and talk about the things that I thought are important."
Caton is a cattle rancher from the Cypress Hills area. This is his sixth federal election and fourth time running for the Liberals. He doesn't know what it would take for a riding that has voted Conservative for many years to consider a Liberal.
"I'm not sure it's just the mindset here," Caton said. "They distrust the Liberal governments, and they make up conspiracy theories about them, and it spreads like wildfire. So many of the voters are anti-Quebec, anti-indigenous, anti-gay, and the Conservative Party just pushes all those buttons, the dog whistles, and they just bite it hook, line, and sinker."
Caton accuses the Conservatives of being too closely aligned with US President Donald Trump.
"Donald Trump is a menace to the whole world and he's attacking Canada right now," the local rancher said. "I think Pierre Poilievre's politics are exactly the same as Trump's. Same as Danielle Smith. Same as Scott Moe. I think we should try and keep Canada as a sovereign nation not let the Americans come in and own everything."
After sitting out the 2021 election, he is running again in part because of how he feels Liberal leader Mark Carney could handle the tariff issues.
"I think he's smart enough to negotiate us through it," Caton said. "He's just so smart. His doctorate in economics has got to be worth something in the situation we're in. Global trade is going to be in chaos for a while until we sort this out, and the smarter the leader the better."
Caton's first federal election was in 2000 when he was the Progressive Conservative nominee in Cypress Hills-Grasslands. Caton then ran for the Liberals in 2004 and 2006. He switched to the Green Party for the 2015 election but returned to the Liberal fold in 2019.
"Justin Trudeau came up with a better green plan than the Green Party," Caton said. "What I can't believe in this area is there are so many climate change deniers. They tell you climate change and global warming is a Liberal conspiracy, and they made it all up so they could tax you. That's total nonsense."
Caton's best result at the polls was in 2004 when he received 18.7% of the vote running for Paul Martin's Liberals.
He's running against the Conservative Party of Canada incumbent Jeremy Patzer, Alex McPhee of the New Democratic Party, and independent candidate Maria Rose Lewans.
The Green Party has announced North Hunter as their candidate for the riding, but she does not yet appear on the Elections Canada website.