If you happen to see Peter Julian and he’s looks a little more weary than usual, that’s totally understandable.
As the 2019 federal election moves toward the finish line, New Westminster-Burnaby candidates have wrapped up a busy itinerary of all-candidates meetings and discussions. The final meeting was a round-table discussion and meet-and-greet on Oct. 17.
According to Julian, he and Green party candidate Suzanne de Montigny were the only two local candidates who attended all 10 of the meetings that were held in the riding, including debates in schools and on radio stations. He said this year’s campaign featured more meetings than previous elections.
“I was doing double duty too because I was handling some of the debates in Burnaby South for Jagmeet (Singh),” he said of the NDP leader who was campaigning across Canada. “I am a little more ragged than I normally am at the end of this because of that.”
De Montigny said she and Julian were the only two candidates at two school gatherings, so they talked to student about their parties’ platforms.
“I have been to everything imaginable,” she said. “At the last two school ones, it was only him and me. We were like, ‘What happened to the rest of them?’”
