Kootenay-Columbia Conservative Candidate, Rob Morrison, is set to host Member of Parliament Blake Richards in the riding. Join fellow Conservatives in Cranbrook for this special event with the Shadow Minister for Small Business, and Export Promotion, and Tourism.

First elected in 2008, Blake Richards was re-elected for a third time in the new riding of Banff-Airdrie on October 19, 2015. While serving on the government side of the House of Commons, Blake chaired two standing policy committees and was Chair of the Parliamentary Tourism Caucus. He also frequently represented the government in regional and national media. Always focused on the needs of his constituents, Blake has three times been named Canada’s Best Constituency MP as well as Hardest Working MP, and in 2015 received a Canadian Tourism Award for his work in Parliament on behalf of the tourism industry.