Next week’s federal by-election in South Surrey-White Rock has a definite Delta flavour.
Former Delta-Richmond East MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay is running for the Conservatives, while Larry Colero is the Green candidate in the riding, which was vacated when Conservative MP Dianne Watts left to pursue the provincial Liberal leadership.
Findlay served one term as Delta-Richmond East MP from 2011 to 2015, serving as minister of national revenue in the Stephen Harper government. In the last federal election, when Delta was reconfigured into a new riding combining South Delta with North Delta, Findlay finished second to Liberal Carla Qualtrough with 32 per cent of the vote.
Colero ran for the Greens in Delta South in the last provincial election, placing fourth with 9.3 per cent of the vote. Colero lived for a while in White Rock and has run for the Greens there previously.
Among the other candidates in the South Surrey-White Rock by-election is a familiar face in those parts in Gordon Hogg, who is running for the Liberals. He’s a long-time White Rock councillor and mayor, also having served as MLA for Surrey-White Rock for five terms before announcing last year that he wouldn’t be running in the 2017 provincial election.
The by-election will be held Dec. 11.
