Michael Winter is running in the municipal election to become a councillor on Dauphin City Council.
Winter says that he's proud of his Indigenous identity and moved to Dauphin when he was twelve years old.
"I love this community and I want to see it thrive... The crime is getting out of control. From when I was a kid, we've been slowly changing and it's not really going in a good way," he adds.
Michael Winter went on to say that he would like the community to be safer and attract better-paying jobs with some kind of industry in town.
"I want to be able to keep our children in this town, so when they graduate if they want to go into something here, it would benefit them, instead of them having to go away to work or move out of town. I want our town to grow," he adds.
After seeing his mother struggle to get around during the winter, Winter is committed to addressing the mobility issue if he's elected.
"[We've] got a lot of elderly in town and a lot of people use walkers and a lot of people use wheelchairs and it's hard to watch people in our community struggle like that just to get groceries," he adds.
Winter believes that people should vote for him because of his honesty and feels that more of that is needed on council.
"I built a pretty good reputation for myself in this town. I've been self-employed since 2011 and all my customers have nothing but good things to say about me and I hold that to a very high standard," he adds.
Winter would also like to see some sort of growth happen and bring in more police officers if elected.
"The businesses suffer having to constantly pay a deductible to get their windows fixed. I've changed a couple of them in the past couple of weeks on Main St. and it's pretty sad," he adds.
Anyone interested in running for municipal office has until September 20th to register.
The municipal election will take place on October 26th.
