Saskatoon election: Meet mayoral candidate Gord Wyant [Video]

Gord Wyant is back.

After serving as a 14-year MLA and a 12-year cabinet minister, handling key portfolios like justice, education and serving as deputy premier, Wyant is back in Saskatoon running for mayor.

“I want my children to continue to live in Saskatoon, I want my grandchildren and my great grandchildren to grow up here, and I think that there are some things that needed to change,” Wyant said from his campaign office.

“And I thought I had the experience to bring to the mayor’s chair to effect the changes for the betterment of the City of Saskatoon.”

Like many of his political endeavours, Wyant never imagined running for mayor of Saskatoon.

As a corporate lawyer in 2000, Wyant answered a phone call from a friend asking him to run as a public school board trustee. Then in 2003, he got a call from outgoing city councillor Peter McCann, encouraging him to make …