The Conservative Party plans a "Canada First" rally in Surrey on Thursday (March 27), with leader Pierre Poilievre in attendance.
The 6 p.m. event will be held on industrial land at 9690 192nd St. less than a week into the 2025 federal election campaign, now in full swing.
Last Sunday (March 23), Prime Minister Mark Carney, recently installed leader of Liberals, met with Gov.-Gen. Mary Simon in Ottawa to ask her to dissolve parliament, with Monday, April 28 picked as final voting day.
Thursday In Port Kells, news media won't be allowed to interview Poilievre at the rally, a Conservative communications rep told the Now-Leader.
"We had between 4,000 to 4,500 people at the rally last night in Hamilton," Sam Lilly noted in an email Wednesday.
Meantime, candidates are also on the campaign trail in the six Surrey-area ridings (electoral districts) including Surrey City Centre, Surrey Newton, Fleetwood-Port Kells, Cloverdale-Langley City, South Surrey-White Rock and Langley Township-Fraser Heights. Also, the Delta riding includes a small pocket of Surrey homes near Scott Road, south from the corner of 64 Avenue and 126 Street, to Mud Bay.
The nomination process for candidates closes April 7, and a complete list of confirmed candidates will be announced two days later, on Wednesday, April 9. Advanced voting starts April 18, more details on elections.ca.
As of Tuesday (March 25), no candidates had been officially confirmed by Elections Canada in any of the Surrey ridings, but many have already been nominated by their party:
Surrey City Centre
Randeep Sarai for Liberal Party of Canada (incumbent)
Rajvir Dhillon for Conservative Party of Canada
Krishan Khurana for Green Party of Canada
Beverly Tanchak for People's Party of Canada
Surrey Newton
Sukh Dhaliwal for Liberal Party of Canada (incumbent)
Harjit Singh Gill for Conservative Party of Canada
Ian Kennedy for People's Party of Canada
Fleetwood-Port Kells
Gurbux Saini for Liberal Party of Canada
Sukh Pandher for Conservative Party of Canada
Brian Conlan for People's Party of Canada
Murali Krishnan for Green Party of Canada
Cloverdale- Langley City
Tamara Jansen for Conservative Party of Canada (incumbent)
Vanessa Sharma for NDP
Kyle Latchford for Liberal Party of Canada
Jim McMurty for People's Party of Canada
South Surrey-White Rock
Kerry-Lynne Findlay for Conservative Party of Canada (incumbent)
Ernie Klassen for Liberal Party of Canada
Matthew Lennox for People's Party of Canada
Langley Township-Fraser Heights
Tako van Popta for Conservative Party of Canada (incumbent for Langley- Aldergrove)
Nasima Nastoh for Liberal Party of Canada
Holly Isaac for NDP
Justin Cawker for People's Party of Canada
Alex Joehl for Libertarian
Debora Soutar for Green Party of Canada
Delta
Jill McKnight for Liberal Party of Canada
Jessy Sahota for Conservative Party of Canada
Natasa Sirotic for People's Party of Canada
Jason McCormick for NDP
—with files from Anna Burns
