Exercpted from The Chilliwack Progress:
Chilliwack’s Jeremy Cockrill has longed dreamed of being elected to political office.
When he was a young kid, he used to clip out all of the political ads out of the Chilliwack Progress and paste them into a notebook, just to keep track of what the candidates were promising for the community.
Later, he volunteered to put up campaign signs and served as a scrutineer on election day.
“But shortly thereafter I found my true campaign calling — door knocking,” he said Monday as he lived out his dream, making his first speech in the Saskatchewan legislature. “Mr. Speaker, as most members in this Assembly can attest to, there is nothing quite like meeting folks on their doorsteps.”
Cockrill delivered the speech in his official status as newly-minted MLA for Battleford, Saskatchewan.
“It’s encouraging to see the hard work in the last number of months come to fruition,” Cockrill told the Battlefords News-Optimist on the night of his victory. “It was obviously a much different campaign just given obviously we were in the midst of a pandemic, and the guidelines around social distancing and so on. I would say the reaction at the doors was great here in the Battlefords, both on the Battleford side and northtown. People were excited I think just to have someone at their door and then excited to hear about our plans for another four years in government.”
A graduate of Langley’s Trinity Western University replaces retired MLA Herb Cox, joining a government that heads into its fourth term holding a majority.
“When the opportunity emerged to put my name forward for the Saskatchewan Party nomination in my constituency, I knew this was a great opportunity to serve the people of The Battlefords and this province,” Cockrill said in his legislature speech. “And I’d like to thank the people of the Battlefords for giving me that opportunity.”
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Cockrill played basketball at Highroad Academy before heading on to TWU, where he also played for the Spartans.