As we head into the final week of campaigning for the 2015 Federal Election, we've visited the forums, spoke to the community and now it's our turn to ask those burning questions to the local candidates in the Foothills Riding.

We'll be asking all candidates the same question over the week, in a five question series leading up to voting day on the 19th.

Our first of five pre-selected questions is:

Why should Foothills residents vote for you and your party?

Conservative MP John Barlow:

"Foothills residents needs someone representing them who knows the issues in this riding, knows the communities in this riding and knows the people of this riding. I've raised my family here, my roots are here, I've spent a lot of time being involved in the Foothills riding, whereas some of my opponents are coming from Calgary and Lethbridge. I think it's vitally important that we have somebody who relates to this riding I think that's a real key. As for the party I think with the policies we've put forward, prudent spending, a balanced budget, the strongest economy in the G7, Canadian families now have the lowest tax burden in 50 years, this allows Canadians to have more money in their pocket."

Romy Tittel, Green Party:

"My campaign slogan is you're greener than you think, that's why in this riding the majority of the people who live and work here are dependent on the health of this planet so right off the that the Green party at its very core considers the earth and the wellness of our planet in all of our decision making so I think considering, like I said, how dependent everybody is here that would be sort of one of the most basic reasons to vote Green party."

Tanya MacPherson, Liberal:

"We are going to be the party that's going to create jobs for Canadians and for people of the Foothills, we're going to have an infrastructure investment of more than 60 billion dollars in addition to what's already been planned by the Harper government. That's infrastructure funding that we can use, for instance, expansion of waste water plants like Nanton and I know Okotoks would like to have the water pipeline to Calgary. We can see what we can do for infrastructure in our riding and we're going to grow the middle class."

Alison Thompson, NDP

"Foothills is a very large riding, it also has a lot of different challenges and my campaign slogan really sums it for me and my view of the riding. A Foothills For All. We need to be inclusive of everybody's situation and dreams for that matter. I see a riding that's a bit stagnate we've got some small towns that aren't growing anymore, in fact they're losing population, we have an oil and gas industry that has been hit hard, I mean hammered hard, from an international oil price that we have very little control over. We have agriculture whose effected by either our own climate change activities that we are doing in our province or other provinces continue to do by burning coal as an example in other countries. That climate blows into the Foothills and is causing a change to what we can grow in our growing season and to the beef industry and also agriculture."

Marc Slingerland, Christian Heritage Party:

"Foothills voters have returned Conservative MP's for quite some time and I think they desrve to get a conservative government and that's unfortunately not what they have received. There's aspects of what the Consertvatives have done that are lotable but they have increased the size of government, they have increased the federal debt running a number of consecutive deficits, they have talked a good game on the military but they haven't actually supported the military men and women. A lot of the things that a conservative government stands for the Conservative party has not really implemented. The Christian Heritage party is an advocate for real conservative values and we're also the only Pro Life federal party in Canada."

Other candidates in the riding were contacted but did not comment.

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