Meet Saskatoon mayoral candidate: Cary Tarasoff [Video]

Cary Tarasoff never saw himself as a politician, and he’s still warming up to the title.

Regardless of political aspirations, Tarasoff has seen himself grow as a leader over his professional working life and feels Saskatoon could use more of that direct leadership these days.

“There’s so many things that were costing me my tax dollars, but now my kids and my grandkids, and all my friends and I want a better quality of life for them,” Tarasoff said.

“I see what’s coming. We’re going to get further and further down the road and life is not going to be better for them. Quality of life will be less than what I enjoyed as a kid, so I take this seriously, I really do. I want better things for the city. I want cleaner decisions.”

Tarasoff grew up in Saskatoon and by the time he was a teenager he had …