Bob Mackin
Only two of the six Vancouver East candidates in the April 28 federal election can vote for themselves and neither of their parties are vying to form government.
Nikida Steel (Green) and Kimball Cariou (Communist) call Vancouver East home, according to candidature filings with Elections Canada.
The rest do not.
Clockwise from top: Kitsilano’s Jenny Kwan (NDP), Surrey’s Lita Cabal (Conservative), Mexico’s Meghan Murphy (PPC) and Richmond’s Mark Wiens (Liberal).
Thrice-elected incumbent Jenny Kwan of the NDP is seeking a fourth term after winning a majority of the votes in 2019 and 2021. Kwan calls Kitsilano home, so she is eligible to vote in Vancouver Quadra.
Kwan’s Liberal challenger is Mark Wiens, the Mandarin-speaking real estate agent and emcee of pro-Beijing banquets. His home address is near Steveston-London secondary in the Richmond East-Steveston riding.
Conservative Lita Cabal resides in Surrey, between Anniedale and Port Kells, in the Langley Township-Fraser Heights riding.
Meghan Murphy of the People’s Party of Canada calls Mexico home.
Liberal leader Mark Carney’s star candidate is former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is running in Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby, despite living in a penthouse near English Bay Beach in Vancouver Centre. Liberal Hedy Fry, who is seeking her 11th win in Vancouver Centre, lives in Arbutus Ridge in Vancouver Granville.
Robertson, coincidentally, won a third term as mayor in 2014 in the Vision Vancouver campaign that featured ads attacking NPA opponent Kirk LaPointe for living on the University of B.C. campus.
Robertson’s affidavit in a Provincial Court challenge of his candidacy during that election said he lived in a downtown apartment after breaking up with his wife. But he continued to list her Kitsilano residence as his official address with the civic election office.
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