Dock Currie will be the federal NDP candidate for the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding.
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September 04, 2019 - 8:48 AM
KAMLOOPS - The New Democratic Party of Canada has announced its replacement candidate for the October federal election in Kamloops.
After Gina Myhill-Jones announced she would be stepping down in early August, the party said they would be searching for a new candidate.
Today, Sept. 4, NDP president Bill Sundhu announced Dock Currie will be acclaimed as the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo NDP candidate.
“After an intensive search and consultations across the riding, new democrats are placing their trust in Dock to reclaim this riding for our party,” Sundhu said in a release. “Dock has a deep commitment and passion in fighting for workers, families, young people, new Canadians and those left behind by Liberals and Conservative governments that cater to the wealthy and powerful.”
Currie is a second-year law student at Thompson Rivers University. He has also served as president of Simon Fraser University’s residence and housing association.
“From my studies, I have drawn a simple lesson: the wealthy and powerful in society have too much influence over and against society, too much power to warp our institutions, and laws towards their interests and away from everyone else’s interests – the system is rigged,” Currie said in a release. “I chose to study law in order to do something about those problems and the extreme inequality of wealth and power in Canada and across much of the developed world.”
Currie says his campaign will highlight social democracy, intervention into the political life of working people, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ2S, vulnerable people and marginalized people.
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