Chris is the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) candidate for the federal electoral district of Kamloops-Thompson Nicola. He is a project manager and marketer who’s professional experience has spanned a number of industries. Chris helps coach his daughter’s hockey team and serves as Secretary for the Clearwater & District Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Chris was raised in Abbotsford BC, and began his working life well before his teens; next-door on his grandparents’ poultry farm. It was there on the family farm that Chris learned work ethics and to take pride in your actions. While there are many opportunities on a farm for learning and growth, he loved history and engineering, and aspired to one of these fields. As a teen and throughout university Chris spent his summers working for his father’s electrical business wiring homes and high-rises.

Chris was awarded a bachelor’s degree with honours in History from Wilfrid Laurier University. His studies focused on the dynamic relationship between everyday people and the emerging state apparatus from the 16th through 19th centuries. Themes of socialization, spirituality, liberty, colonialism, and the growth of state power resonated throughout this period and have become critical topics of discussion in recent years.

As two-term President of his History Students’ Association, Chris got an insider's view of university faculty: a toxic two-tier system of contract and tenured professors. Contractors faced constant employment uncertainty, and had to publish relentlessly for any hope of a tenured position. Rather than supporting their contracted colleagues, tenured faculty were in a separate and opposed (unsympathetic) union. In 2011, halfway through a master’s degree at Simon Fraser University, Chris decided that academia was no-longer an attractive career choice.

Chris started his first business in 2012 with a close friend and former professor. The idea was to host English language tours in Paris and subsidize summers abroad. It ran for two seasons. The content was excellent, but the name was a flop. It turned out that very few English-speakers could pronounce “Capetian Tours” (cap-ay-shun).

Chris’ professional career took-off after he moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2013. The Australian ideal that “everyone deserves a fair go” and hiring practices that emphasize transferable skills (rather than paper certifications) was the perfect environment to reinvent oneself and gain confidence.

A contract role in litigation support - under a highly talented manager - gave Chris an opportunity to learn Microsoft Excel at a deep level. It turned out that the business world runs on spreadsheets. His next opportunity came from a friend’s referral - an interview as a digital media buyer (more spreadsheets) at Mediacom, an arm of WPP, the world’s largest advertising company. It was Chris’ first ‘big business’ job. The place was a white-collar sweatshop, but it was rewarding and ignited a previously unknown passion for marketing, data, and analytics.

In 2015 Chris was hired by one of his clients, IG, to help scale their internal ad-buying operation. IG or “Investor’s Gold” had created derivatives trading of gold contracts in 1974 and is a market leader in the online trading of financial markets. Chris spent the next five years with the firm and the seven years in the industry.

Meanwhile, Chris had never given up on his tourism ambitions. The learnings from two-summers in Paris prompted Chris to design an ‘everything app’ for the industry, focusing on the needs of smaller operators. In 2019 Chris was able to hire some developers and begin putting it together. But by early 2020 it all fell apart. The Covid pandemic had been unleashed. Melbourne descended into a statist draconian lockdown, freedom of movement no longer existed, playgrounds and daycares were closed. As a new father with limited free-time, Chris’ dreams of a startup came to a halt.

Over the next year Chris watched as politicians and bureaucrats destroyed small-businesses across the western-world, and gave exemptions to large corporations. With the support of legacy media, dubious PCR tests, and emphatic pleas to “trust the science”, these ‘public servants’ controlled the narrative and crafted a two-tier society based on ‘Vaccine Passes’. It was dystopian, it was Fascism - right out of Mussolini’s playbook. As a history-major, it was obvious.

Chris still had business ambitions. However, the world seemed smaller. Tourism felt like the worst possible industry to start a business in. At the prompting of his web developer friend and new business partner, Chris decided to pivot toward a smaller but more resilient project - a financial services comparison website. In the middle of 2020 Chris took the leap and quit his job at IG, freeing up time and avoiding any conflict of interest.

On December 4th, 2020, Chris’ business partner told him that he would be leaving the project due to an unexpected pregnancy. This was a dark day and the largest lesson in perseverance that Chris had ever encountered. He took some steps sideways, taught himself to code, and carried on with the project.

By the middle of 2021 life in a Melbourne apartment had grown untenable. Chris and his spouse Rachel decided that they would relocate their family to less-totalitarian Canada and began her application for permanent residency. In the meantime, they decided to spend whatever time that process would take at Rachel’s parents’ home in far-less repressive Queensland. That decision meant becoming intimately acquainted with residency paperwork and international shipping procedures.

The entire process of leaving Australia took three moves and nearly 18-months. Moving to Queensland meant applying for an approval from the state government to cross state-lines. Once it was granted, quick organization of rail transport for our shipping container and car, as well as flights (driving was not allowed). Upon landing, Chris and his family had to submit to two-weeks of hotel-quarantine and unceasingly rude treatment by police and health-officers.

From Australia, Canada looked somewhat resilient to the tyranny of the nascent bio-security state that was being implemented across the world. Provinces were unable to close their borders, various mask and vaccine mandates appeared less effective. Many Canadians were steadfast in their resistance to infringements upon their liberty. Chris watched in support as the Freedom Convoy staged the largest and most peaceful protest in Canadian history. It was a unifying moment, it was inspiring, and Chris knew he was making the right decision in returning to his homeland. Then the Prime Minister and federal government chose to betray their oath to Canadians. They spread lies about the protestors, invoked the Emergency Act, utilized ‘agent provocateurs’, froze bank accounts, seized assets, and arrested the organizers. The media, banks, and police were all complicit. Chris knew that resisting and helping to correct this systemic corruption had to be an important part of his life moving forward.

Chris returned to Canada in November 2022 with his family. He began a marketing consultancy and took a position as Project Manager for his father’s electrical company. After a few months in Abbotsford BC, Chris and Rachel decided to settle further north in Clearwater. He renamed the consultancy Yellowhead Digital in homage to the area’s namesake: a blonde-haired indigenous trader and guide. Chris also took on a historical research role with the BC Metis Federation; assisting them with the data collection, interpretation, and mapping of mixed-race people’s experiences during the fur-trade era and beyond.

In June 2024 Chris applied to become a candidate for the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), a libertarian-conservative leaning party participating at the federal level of government. He was granted the opportunity that November. Chris had been a PPC supporter for some time, as the party leader - Maxime Bernier - was the only federal party leader who stood strong with the concerned public against Covid-era excesses from the beginning. Until February 2024, the PPC were also the only party promoting practical and principled positions to address the Canadian government’s many problems. It was in that month, reeling from Donald Trump’s tariff threats, that other parties began to borrow from the PPC’s policybook. They say that imitation is the highest compliment.

Chris was invited to join the Clearwater Chamber Commerce executive as Secretary in October of 2024. As someone who understood the importance and plight of small businesses Chris decided that it was a great opportunity to get involved and help out locally.

Chris’ is passionate about a great number of topics. Chiefly, he finds the growing power imbalance between individuals and government/corporations to be of great concern. Chris believes that checks on government and corporate power are well overdue, and that governments’ mandates should be the decentralization and distribution of their power back to individual citizens wherever possible. Canadians, and indeed all peoples, deserve governments that work for their citizens by respecting humans’ proven ability and inherent right to make decisions. Canadians should have access to, and the right to develop, the resources of this bountiful land. Canadians should be encouraged to begin private enterprises, to create jobs for their fellow citizens, and to not have their successes blocked or stifled. Private enterprise can more efficiently fulfill the function of almost every government service. Blanket taxation should be replaced by an opt-in system for services. Minimal government intervention is the best recipe for our communities’ happiness, sustainability, and longevity. Canadians do not want nor need a nanny state, bureaucracy, or technocracy - they are the antithesis to “true north strong and free.”

“An economy is like a castle. Its stonework is of various sizes, purposefully cut and laid. A few large stones anchor and support the structure. Many medium stones provide for its definition. Countless small stones form every detail, arch, window, and door. These stones are like businesses. The mortar, like people - operators, employees, consumers - hold it all together and give it life.”

- Chris Enns