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Polarizing PPC candidate not running in Burnaby Kelvin Gawley
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The People’s Party candidate from the Feb. 25 Burnaby South byelection will not be running in the same riding in this fall’s federal election. Instead, Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson will be carrying the fledgling party’s banner to Alberta, to run in Red Deer-Lacombe. The Christian blogger and former host of the 700 Club Canada TV show came in fourth in the bye-
lection, losing to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, but attracting more than 10 per cent of the vote – by far the best result of any People’s Party candidate in byelections since its creation. Thompson also ran unsuccessfully for Burnaby school board in October 2018. During the byelection campaign,Thompson criticized Singh as lacking a genuine connection to the community. He had moved to the riding from Ontario to run in the byelection to
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replace former MP Kennepletely different place, and dy Stewart. they see an opportunity that “He’s not lowill advance their cal to here and, cause and they do so yeah, it’s kind what it takes, and of a surprise that that’s what I’m he would choose doing.” Burnaby South,” Thompson said Thompson told the People’s Party Post Millennial in members encourJanuary. aged her to run Asked how her in Red Deer after move differed from seeing her strong Laura-Lynn Tyler performance in Singh’s,ThompThompson son said, “Well, this Burnaby. is what happens in “I have some Canada. People in a free so- very good friends who are ciety move across to a comfrom Alberta, and I see they
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have been through an awful lot and have faced some very difficult times,” she said. “I think that they really like (People’s Party Leader) Maxime Bernier, and I feel very embraced by them.” Thompson visited Red Deer recently but said she’s not sure whether she’s been there before. “I believe that I’ve been to Red Deer many years ago on a road trip, but in all honesty, that’s it,” she said. In the 2015 election, the Conservative candidate in Red Deer-Lacombe, Blaine
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Calkins, won with more than 70 per cent of the vote. Thompson said the People’s Party has yet to choose a new candidate in Burnaby South. Other candidates from the Feb. 25 byelection have said they intend to run in the riding again on Oct. 20, including Singh, Liberal Richard Lee and Conservative Jay Shin. The Green Party did not run a candidate during the byelection out of a “leader’s courtesy” to Singh, but intends to run a candidate in October.
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