Conservatives drop B.C. candidate in New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 01, 2025 10:53 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

The Conservatives person dropped Lourence Singh, the party's campaigner for the New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville riding successful the upcoming national election.

Singh is the 3rd campaigner the Tories dropped connected Tuesday, pursuing the ouster of Mark McKenzie in southwestern Ontario and Stefan Marquis successful Montreal.

The Conservatives did not stock a crushed for wherefore they dropped Singh, simply confirming that helium was dropped arsenic a campaigner successful a one-line email to CBC News.

When reached by phone, Singh refused to remark further connected Tuesday evening.

The erstwhile Conservative campaigner is simply a existent property agent. His run had posted images of himself with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and of him campaigning successful the Metro Vancouver riding.

New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville covers the City of New Westminster, arsenic good arsenic areas successful eastbound Burnaby and southwest Coquitlam.

Its boundaries person been redrawn in effect to colonisation growth. The incumbent MP for the country is the NDP's Peter Julian.

Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore campaigner McKenzie was dropped aft past comments wherever helium expressed enactment for nationalist hangings.

Meanwhile, Laurier-Sainte-Marie candidate Stefan Marquis was dropped pursuing societal media posts astir conspiracy theories on subjects specified as COVID-19, vaccines, the World Economic Forum and the penetration of Ukraine.