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The People’s Party of Canada now has a riding association in the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding.
The new federal party held a meeting Sunday at the Penticton Library auditorium to prepare for putting a candidate forward for the 2019 federal election.
About 30 people attended the inaugural meeting for the PPC, a new player in Canadian conservative politics founded and led by Quebec-based MP Maxime Bernier.
The two-hour meeting resulted in several nominees being acclaimed.
A founding member of the PPC and organizer for the B.C. Interior, Glen Walushka, chaired the meeting which lacked some of the enthusiasm of meetings in the North Okanagan, but managed after two hours to form the board to oversee the local PPC riding association.
Steve Mitchell from Grand Forks was acclaimed as president with no others putting their name forward, as was the case for vice president Sergio Zanatta, secretary and former Grand Forks city councillor Julia Butler and directors Brad Magnus, Helen Trevors and Joel Adolph.
Steve Mitchell declined to immediately comment on becoming president of the association, saying he still had to wrap his head around the leadership role.
The tepid response for nominations to the board from the 28 people who attended the meeting was compared to “pulling teeth,” by Walushka during the meeting.
Walushka brushed past the notion the party has had members from extreme or far-right ideologies join the party, dismissing the issue as “political verbiage.”
“We, over the course of the last couple of weeks, have had instances of people telling us we’re attracting right-wing extremists and all sorts of nasty people, people who wear white sheets over their head and that sort of stuff,” Walushka said. “A lot of that is nothing but political verbiage, of course, most of it, almost all of it is.”
As a party of “individual freedom and personal responsibility,” Walushka said the area “is not going to see a candidate parachuted,” into the riding.
Walushka compared this period of time in the party’s infancy to “the big bang.”
Walushka claimed the new party has garnered 35,000 members in eight weeks and advised to have the “best, kick-ass candidate” by the end of May, 2019.
