Federal NDP leadership Candidate Tony McQuail is hopeful his campaign can meet the next target in order to stay in the race.
So far, the Lucknow area farmer has been managed to overcome the fundraising hurdles.
Each Candidate needed to raise $25,000 plus an administration fee by the 30th day of October, November, and December. The next deadline is January 28.
McQuail is optimistic he can raise the required $33,000 before the end of the week.
Despite being an underdog, McQuail said he entered the race to win.
"It's about what do people want, what do people value," he stressed. "I certainly got into it also with a number of other goals. Certainly one of them was to bring forward issues that I didn't feel I was hearing that I thought were important. And I'm now hearing other candidates talk about those things."
The holistic farmer says his "Holistic Goal for Canada" plan includes a Quality of Life that meets the basic needs for water, food, shelter, clothing, healthcare and education for every Canadian. His vision is a caring, and compassionate country, both for its residents at home and to the broader world community.
"The issue of redistribution has certainly resonated with people," he added. "People are starting to understand that the economy has been designed to concentrate wealth into fewer and fewer hands. That's not working out very well for us as a Canadian society, and we need to develop a more distributive economy."
McQuail would like to see the federal government work with provinces, municipalities, housing cooperatives and housing non-profits to build affordable and inclusive ecological housing.
He stressed it's time to ensure that one full time job can cover the basic cost of living with a fair tax system and a Universal Basic Income.
"Creating a proportional electoral system so that parliament truly reflects how Canadians want to vote," said McQuail. "We need to start really looking at regeneration, and how do we heal the damage that we've done to our life support system, the planet earth."
McQuail said his farm is based on holistic management, which he called early triple bottom line approach for managing complexity by including the environment, the people and the money in planning and decision making.
"It also helps us realize that when working with complex systems - like human relationships, the environment and Humans acting in the environment - we should make the best plan we can - and then assume it won't work perfectly - so that we need to monitor and keep adjusting the plan as we see how it develops," he continued.
The NDP will hold a National Leadership Convention in March at a national convention in Winnipeg, and five candidates are expected to be on the ballot.
Tanille Johnston, Heather McPherson, Avi Lewis and Rob Ashton are also running.
