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Richmond's federal election picture almost complete

With polling day a little more than three months away, the federal election picture in Richmond is almost complete.
Travato
Jack Travato

With polling day a little more than three months away, the federal election picture in Richmond is almost complete.

Award-winning schoolteacher and Richmond resident Jack Trovato is the latest hopeful to be acclaimed as a candidate, running for the Federal New Democratic Party in the new Richmond Centre riding in the Oct. 19 election.

“I support a fairer, greener, more just society that makes life a little easier for working Canadians and that is focused on a hopeful vision for a better tomorrow,” said Trovato in a recent press release.

Trovato, who failed to win a seat on Richmond School Board last fall, has already begun his campaign by knocking on doors and visiting many non-profit organizations in Richmond.

He will be up against incumbent Conservative MP Alice Wong and the Liberal Party’s Lawrence Woo, a retired accountant and former chair of S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

The Green Party has yet to name any runners for either of the two local seats, saying last week that a decision would be reached “soon.”

Richmond businesswoman Wendy Yuan is currently seeking the Liberal Party of Canada’s nomination in the new and therefore vacant Steveston-Richmond East riding.

Yuan was the Liberal’s candidate in both the 2008 and 2011 general elections, the first individual with a Mainland China background to run for a major federal political party.

She coild be up against the Conservative’s Kenny Chiu, a former Richmond School Board trustee, and New Democrat Scott Stewart, both of whom have been campaigning door-to-door since the spring.

Lifelong Richmondite and Canadian Armed Forces reservist Stewart has tried and failed on the election platform before, running for the same party in the provincial race in May 2013, while Chiu is new to the federal election arena.