Bob Mackin
Wade Grant, the Vancouver Quadra Liberal candidate, is getting help from the area’s most-recent B.C. NDP candidate.
Liam Olsen (left) with Callista Ryan last fall. Ryan is campaigning with Liberal Wade Grant this spring. (Instagram)
Callista Ryan was the NDP runner-up in last October’s Vancouver-Quilchena provincial contest to Dallas Brodie. Brodie succeeded Kevin Falcon in the free enterprise stronghold after he withdrew B.C. United from the election. Ryan counted Liam Olsen, the president of the Young Liberals of Canada, as one of her campaign workers.
Grant, the Musqueam Indian Band’s intergovernmental relations officer, submitted a list of nominators to Elections Canada that includes Ryan’s signature.
Also on the list: Tl’azt’en Nation chief Edward John, the former NDP children and families minister in 2000 and 2001, Leonard Schein, an NDP-appointed member of the University of B.C. board of governors, and Paul and Catherine Evans, longtime supporters of retiring MP Joyce Murray.
Paul Evans is the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs professor emeritus who was co-CEO at Asia Pacific Foundation from 2005 to 2008 with future Trudeau-appointed senator Yuen Pau Woo.
Catherine Evans was a Vision Vancouver Park Board commissioner from 2014 to 2018. Mayor Ken Sim appointed her last year to his task force on dismantling the elected park board.
Grant’s main April 28 challenger is Conservative Ken Charko, proprietor of the Dunbar Theatre.
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