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Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will run for election in Burnaby South

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Ten months after he was elected leader of the federal NDP, Jagmeet Singh announced Wednesday that he will run for a seat at the House of Commons in an upcoming byelection in the Burnaby South riding.

“I’m running because the Liberals haven’t done what people need, and the Conservatives won’t do what’s right,” Singh said.

Singh was elected leader of the federal NDP on Oct. 1, 2017, replacing Tom Mulcair; but not being an MP, he did not get a seat at the House of Commons.

The seat will be vacated by NDP MP Kennedy Stewart, who announced on August 1 that he will be running for mayor in the upcoming Vancouver municipal election.

Prior to his election as leader, Singh was elected to the provincial parliament in Ontario in 2011, and later served as both the Deputy House Leader and Deputy Leader of the Ontario NDP from 2015–17.

As leader of the federal NDP, Singh has made income inequality, electoral reform, Indigenous reconciliation, and climate change central tenets of his platform.

He is also an outspoken critic of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which has been met with significant protest in Burnaby.

A date for the byelection has not been set. Singh said that should he win the byelection, he will move to the area.

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Myles Sauer
Former staff editor and writer at Victoria Buzz.

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