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By Adam Donnelly

Election 2020

Giesbrecht to carry B.C. Conservative banner in Kamloops-North Thompson

Oct 2, 2020 | 3:05 PM

KAMLOOPS — Another candidate has come forward in the Kamloops-North Thompson riding for the upcoming provincial election. This time, for the BC Conservatives.

Dennis Giesbrecht, who originally hails from Logan Lake will be running for the BC Conservatives, who did not field candidates in the 2017 provincial election. Giesbrecht chose to make his announcement in the Kamloops-Shouth Thompson riding, with the Trans Mountain Pipeline laydown yard as his backdrop, to help highlight the importance his focus on resource sector jobs for the region.

“I have worked in the trades. I know what it’s like to be away from home. I’ve worked in oil and gas. My father retired from Highland Valley Copper,” Giesbrecht told the media and his supporters who gathered for the announcement. “I grew in a small, resource-based town. I know the advantages and the challenges involved, and I look forward to bringing that knowledge to Victoria.”

The BC Conservatives finished fifth in the overall election race in 2017. The ran a slate of 10 candidates, and garnered a little more than 10,000 votes — about a half a per cent of the popular vote across BC. In 2020, the party is running on a five-point plan that includes opening up competition in the car insurance marketplace, creating jobs in the resource sector, and scrapping the province’s carbon tax.

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Giesbrecht is the fifth candidate to declare his intentions to run in Kamloops-North Thompson, along with B.C. Liberal incumbent Peter Milobar, NDP candidate Sadie Hunter, Thomas Martin of the Green Party and independent Brandon Russell.