Kander Bywater
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I'm Cole Kander. Third generation on the same acres outside Bywater, two terms on the Bywater town-moot, and 11 years running the mill that pays 34 of our neighbours. I know this riding because I've never left it.

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Cole Kander with Premier Danielle Smith
With Premier Danielle Smith

Membership cutoff: . Nomination vote: . Riding: Bywater · Green Hill Country.

My Story

Four generations on the same road

My great-grandfather broke the first field on our place in 1341. My son will be the fourth Kander to learn to handle a team on that same lane.

I took over Kander & Sons Mill in Bywater in the spring of 1414. We were 9 people then. We're 34 now, and every one of those wages goes to somebody who buys their flour and their ale in Bywater.

I ran for the moot in 1418 after the Brandywine washed out the low road and nobody in Michel Delving could tell us when it would be mended. I chaired the flood-moot that got it rebuilt, under purse, a year early.

My wife Rose teaches the middle forms at the Michel Delving school. Our boy Sam is 3, which means most of my weekends happen in creeks now. That's fine by me.

11
Years running the mill
2
Terms on the Bywater moot
34
Hands on the mill books
Four generations of the Kander family gathered in a parlour
Four generations, one parlour, one settle
Cole Kander and his son at a creek
Sterday, somewhere in the Green Hills

“I'm not asking for a promotion. I'm asking for the job I've been doing anyway.”

Cole Kander
The Platform

Six things I'll push for on day one

No forty pages of flourish. Six commitments you can hold me to, in the order I'd fight for them.

01

Water before everything

Finish the Brandywine irrigation works and fund the upstream storage study. Our growers can't plan a season on a maybe.

02

Widen the Great East Road

Nine dead in six years on the stretch between Bywater and Bree. The widening has been surveyed to death. Build it.

03

Keep the healing house open

The Michel Delving healing house sat dark 41 nights last year. Green Hill Country needs healers who stay, and a standing rota so the door is never barred.

04

Jobs in the Iron Hills

A ninety-day clock on any charter the moot must grant a smithy or a delving, and a lot less patience for vetoes stamped in Mordor.

05

Rangers on the East Road

Uruk-hai raiders hit four farms past the Marish this spring and the nearest Ranger was the better part of an hour out. Fund the watch.

06

Mordor doesn't farm here

Pipe-weed quotas, forge caps, bow registries, all of it drafted in Barad-dûr by folk who have never crossed the Brandywine. I'll back the Premier every time she pushes back.

Out in the Party
Cole Kander with federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre
With Pierre Poilievre at the Bree Midsummer Fair.
Cole Kander with Kerry-Lynne Findlay, leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia
With Kerry-Lynne Findlay, leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia, at the Green Hill caucus supper.

I've knocked 2,100 doors in this riding since Astron, and I haven't paid a single soul to do it. That's what a real local team looks like.

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Two hours beats two hundred pennies

Nominations are won by whoever gets their people to the hall. If you can walk a lane, call on 40 households, or bake something for a kitchen-moot, you're useful to me.

  • Sterday door-knocks, ten in the morning, on the Bywater Green
  • Calling on neighbours, Trewsday and Hevensday
  • Banner crews (a waggon helps, not required)
  • Waggon-drivers on vote day (vote day)

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