Mark Warawa latest Conservative candidate to skip candidates' meeting
Another federal candidates' meeting, another missing Conservative candidate. I moderated a forum Monday in Aldergrove, which was organized by a number of seniors' and veterans' groups. Candidates from the Langley-Aldergrove riding, which takes in most of Langley and a small portion of western Abbotsford, were invited to attend several weeks ago. Three of them showed up - Green Simmi Dhillon, NDP Margot Sangster and Liberal Leon Jensen. All gave detailed presentations of both their parties' platforms and their own views on numerous seniors' and veterans' issues, as well as topics like the Kinder Morgan pipeline. The 130 people or so in attendance were mostly seniors. Judging from their questions and conversations I had with a number of them afterwards, most were there to get more information about candidates, to help them decide who to vote for. There were few overt partisans of one candidate or another. Prominently missing was longtime Conservative MP Mar...