Treaty Indian Senate run ends

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Alberta will not have a treaty Indian running for October's upcoming Senate election.

Harvey Cardinal's bid to be the first Treaty Indian to run in a Senate election has fizzled.

The Medicine Hat resident failed to the 1,500 signatures required to run in the election, which is being held Oct. 16 at the same time as province-wide municipal elections.

He estimated he was short by 300 names.

Seven other candidates were declared eligible to run but the race narrowed to six on Sept. 27 when Ivor Dent announced he was dropping out.

Ironically, Cardinal, a member of the Big Stone Cree Band in northern Alberta, earlier believed he had enough signatures. But he had to start over since he obtained them before the election writ

was issued.

Cardinal, 50, had intended to run as an independent, which he said would allow him to speak his mind without being hampered by party ties.

He has finished five years of Native law studies at the University of Lethbridge and now plans to continue studying criminal law.

Senate candidates include Liberal Bill Code, Progressive Conservative Bert Brown, Reform Party member Stan Waters and Independents Ken Paproski, Gladys Taylor and Tom Sindlinger.