How Politics is a Team Sport with Terry Farell, Former MLA

Today’s guest is Terry Farrell, our Former MLA from 2013-2017.  Terry is currently a lawyer at Creighton Shatford Law Firm in Amherst.

I asked Terry to on come to talk with about how individual people can get involved in the political process based on his experience as our MLA.  I want to start talking about how individual people can advocate for, and push to make the changes that they want to see in our community.  I know that coming out of the Coronavirus situation we have the opportunity to talk about and act to make the changes we want to see, or to keep things the way they were.  We as individuals have the ability to act to make this happen.  But, I believe for many reasons over the last 30 to 40 years we have lost the skills, ability, confidence or knowledge on how to do this.  With the Municipal Election in October of this year it's important for us to start thinking about what we can do individually.  I want to start talking about this now.

In this interview Terry shares how individuals can work together in their community or through other organizations to influence government policies.  Terry shared his belief that influencing government policies requires building, developing and maintaining relationships with members of governments, their staff and other community members.  Terry also shares his story of how he got into politics and what the piece of advice everyone gave him that he just couldn’t follow. Finally, Terry offers some thoughts and wisdom for people thinking about getting involved in the Municipal Election in the Fall.

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You can contact Terry at Creighton Shatford at [phone] or by email at [e-mail]

Links from today’s Episode:

Town of Amherst Council Meetings – 

Minutes 

Agendas 

Calendar - 

Municipality of Cumberland Council Meetings

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