Tuesday March 11, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends | ALSO SEE: South Vancouver Island office opening.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will host the opening of the South Vancouver Island NDP campaign office this evening.
The office is located at 2622 Douglas Street in downtown Victoria.
The office will function as a campaign headquarters for three south Vancouver Island candidates:
- Laurel Collins (Victoria)
- Colin Plant (Saanich-Gulf Islands)
- Mait Tait (Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke)
One incumbent, two new:
- Collins will be seeking her third term as the Member of Parliament for Victoria (elected 2019 and re-elected in 2021).
- Plant is currently a District of Saanich municipal councillor and he chairs the Capital Regional District (CRD) board. His candidacy was confirmed in April 2024.
- Tait is currently mayor of the District of Sooke. She announced her candidacy in August 2023.
Vancouver Island stronghold:
Currently the NDP holds six of seven federal ridings on South Vancouver Island, which has been the case since the 2011 federal election.
Maintaining the Vancouver Island stronghold is obviously very important to the NDP which hopes to increase their national seat count in the upcoming Canadian 2025 federal election.
- Cowichan-Malahat-Langford MP Alistair MacGregor has been the food price critic and has brought forward bills on brain injury and food cooperatives; he has frequently chaired the NDP caucus meetings in Ottawa.
- North Island—Powell River MP Rachel Blaney has worked hard on the seniors and veterans files.
- Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP Lisa Marie Baron has been working on the derelict vessels issue.
- Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke was held from 2011 through 2024 by now-retired MP Randall Garrison.
Office opening:
More to come about tonight’s March 11 south Vancouver Island office opening.
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