Canadians used up a lot of graphite filling in ballots at the advance polls this past weekend, with a record 4.7 million participating.

With no shortage of election dialogue taking place leading into Monday's final vote, we'll be catching up with the people running to represent Souris-Moose Mountain in the House of Commons.

The first candidate we caught up with was Phillip Zajac, who is representing the People's Party of Canada.

Zajac has a focus on small government and moving away from pacts aimed at fighting climate change. He stressed that the PPC is the only party that'll remove Canada from the Paris Accord.

"We have to make sure that we understand that being part of the Paris Agreement not only is going to cost resource-rich countries $100 billion, is what the UN has requested, Canada has already sent $2.3 billion of our taxpayer dollars to Africa for that program, and we are going to stop all that."

Zajac said that he doesn't see climate change as an emergency.

"Climate change has happened throughout history. There's no government in the Canadian government or any world government couldn't stop the ice age. The planet will heat up and cool down. Saskatchewan, as we all know, is a carbon-neutral province. And that's basically what the People's Party of Canada believes, is that individual companies and provinces will be able to help with that climate change if they feel the need to."

He added that the private sector should be the ones to deal with any potential changes to the environment, but said the average world temperature is around 9 C - the same as it has been the last 1,000 years.

"When you look at the average world temperature over the last thousand years, it's been about nine degrees Celsius on average, and it's about nine degrees still to this day. I just don't believe that humans are the culprit here. I think the planet is always taking care of itself, and yep there are things that we can do that will reduce emissions, and the private sector proves that time and time again. And Canadian ingenuity and the brilliant people who work in those sectors will figure out things to help reduce CO2 emissions where they're needed. We do need CO2 in the air. It's a nutrient for plants, and we can't not have carbon dioxide."

Zajac is from Saskatoon, but has been in Estevan for the last decade, where he's involved in coaching sports, the Kinsmen, the Estevan Library Board, and works at RBC as a mortgage specialist.

He said he's enjoying the campaign, and travelling around the riding meeting with people, as well as meeting with people within the PPC.

"I was able to go to the first national convention this year. The energy that those 500 people had in that room, the quality of the candidates that I met that are running, we have 40 veterans running for the PPC across Canada, I'm proud to be a member of these people in this riding in Souris-Moose Mountain, and I think I'm a member of the only party in Canada that is for small tax, small government, and out of the United Nations. The world is leaning towards a globalist government, and our party is the one that's going to keep Canada Canada, we're going to keep Canadian values, which are important to everybody, and Canadian traditions that we've developed as Canadians over the past 150 years where they used to be and how they should be going forward.

"We all came to Canada for a reason. My grandparents were immigrants from the Ukraine, and the reason they left that country was because things were horrible. The Russians were moving across central Europe, and there was no food and no jobs. So basically what the PPC wants to do is continue the Canadian identity. This is a safe place to raise your family. We have conservative values. We care about our communities and we take care of one another, and we don't need to make special conditions for every single person in Canada. We're Canadians and let's celebrate that."