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Chilliwack-Hope candidates at last Wednesday’s all-candidates meeting, left to right, Thomas Cheney, Louis De Jaeger, Alexander Johnson, Seonaigh MacPherson, Dorothy-Jean O’Donnell and Mark Strahl.
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PAUL J. HENDERSON Commentary some 380 people showed up. He was also scheduled to attend the public Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Coast Hotel at noon on Thursday. At the Cultural Centre meeting, which was broadcast later a number of times on Shaw TV, all six candidates—Strahl, Green Thomas Cheney, Liberal Louis De Jaeger, Libertarian Alexander Johnson, NDP Seonaigh MacPherson and Marxist-Leninist Dorothy-Jean O’Donnell—provided compelling
and at times controversial answers to questions from the audience. As is often the case, local issues either fall into a national context or fall by the wayside as federal campaigns tend to steer the conversations across the country. International trade, however, while a subject of national debate, was made local and was one of the first topics discussed thanks to the recent signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-nation trade deal many dairy and poultry farmers feared would decimate their industries. Strahl told the crowd the TPP was important for Canadian business to “keep us in the loop with our NAFTA partners,” and he was proud the { See COMMENTARY, page A17 }
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ith just four days left in the longest federal election campaign in Canadian history, voters here in Chilliwack have also seen, arguably, one of the most interesting races in recent memory. It’s hard to know how much social media may distort and amplify matters, but the interest across the political spectrum in this new riding of Chilliwack-Hope over the last 74 days has been remarkable. And while Conservatives across Canada have been criticized for a campaign style that saw less participation in candidates meetings than in the past or from the other parties, incumbent Mark Strahl did attend some, including last Wednesday at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre where
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