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| Affiliation | Democratic Reform BC |
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| Name | Erle Martz |
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, British Columbia , Canada |
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| Contributor | User 13 |
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| Info | Erle began his political involvement in 1999 becoming vice president in a constituency for the Reform Party of British Columbia. Soon after he became a regional director and then vice president of the party before the coming together with the DR BC. At the DR BC founding convention Erle was elected to the office president of the new party.
Erle has been a small businessman most of his life, being an owner and operater of trucks in the transportation industry for many years. Erle then entered the welding business where he has done contract work and taught the trade for over 19 years.
Since the 2001 election, Erle has worked with the public and unions fighting the BC Rail sale as it was handled and is very outspoken over it (He is not a happy camper on that one). At the height of the protest Erle joined labour, unions, business and politician forces blockading BC Rail’s tracks in the Prince George area to protest the sale.
Erle was very impressed with Federation of labour Jim Sinclair’s participation and leadership in the protest and has much respect for the man as they walked out in front of the slow moving train and flagged it down. Erle commented after, “What a rush, I never realized how big those locomotives really were; and the first thought that came to mind was, these things do have brakes don’t they?”
Over the last few decades Erle has worked in a number of British Columbia’s resouce industries. From the coal fields in Tumbler Ridge, the oilpatch in that very area before ground was broken on the Tumber Ridge project, and in the forest industry building roads and hauling logs.
Erle loves the outdoors and the wilderness and that is what brought him back to BC, and specifically Prince George. He was born in St. Mary’s hospital in 1947 and resided in the area for a mere “couple of years” before moving to Alberta for the next couple of decades.
However, the 88 lakes with in a twenty minute drive of Prince George, all with catchable fish is where he’s happy.
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