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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Flanked by his wife, Amy, newly elected NDP MP Alistair MacGregor enters his Duncan Lodge headquarters Monday night to the sound of First Nations drums and the applause of a large crowd of supporters. For more photos from the event, see cowichanvalleycitizen.com [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]
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Even as federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair made a subdued speech to supporters in Quebec, local NDP candidate Alistair MacGregor was being declared the winner of the new Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding, with a healthy lead over the other
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four candidates. Though his party’s seats in Ottawa were reduced substantially, and nationally the NDP’s results had to be seen as a disappointment, MacGregor was upbeat and excited by his win and the prospect of heading to Ottawa. “The people of Cowichan-Mala-
hat-Langford have sent a clear message tonight,” MacGregor said. “You voted for change! Rejecting the politics of fear and division, you voted for a better and more inclusive Canada. And that was a good thing.” Speaking in person in Duncan and to his supporters in Langford by Skype, he went on to assure
everyone, even those who had supported other candidates, that he was “going to fight for those values every single day.” He thanked his team, “especially for keeping going when we were so tired, after an 11-week campaign.” “I am deeply humbled by the trust you have placed in me
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tonight. I will work every single day with every ounce of energy I have to keep on earning that trust. It’s a very sacred thing,” he said. “I will also pledge that, as your member of parliament, I will follow in the footsteps of Jean Crowder.”
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