Next month's federal election will see a People's Party of Canada candidate on the ballot in Portage-Lisgar.

Aaron Lyle Archer's made the decision to run.

He's from Alberta, and is also a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, who's served in Afghanistan, and at CFB Shilo. He talks about why he's taken this step...

"I couldn't get behind any party," he says. "No one was talking about what everyone around my dinner table was talking about. And that was the critical issues that seemingly everyone wants to avoid, which I have no problem talking about. That's why I like the PPC, they allow their candidates to speak their mind."

Archer says veterans' issues spurred his interest in running.

"I think most veterans would probably go back to Brock Blaszczyk talking to Justin Trudeau about the lack of support that veterans have, and the willingness of his party to look after us" he says. "At the same time giving 10.5 million dollars to a convicted terrorist and three others that were very much of his pedigree."

Archer feels his party has a grasp on critical issues facing the country.

"Obviously supply management, obviously our trade disputes with the rest of the world," he says. "Trying to get our grain and our products out to a world market has been an issue. But even just inside of out own country, inside the borders that we have right now. There's a lot of bureaucracy there, and the PPC is about removing those barriers."

The federal election is October 21st.