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By Curtis Goodrum

ELECTION 2025

NDP candidate Idzan plans to focus Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies campaign on affordability

Apr 4, 2025 | 4:42 PM

KAMLOOPS — Phaedra Idzan is the first NDP candidate for the riding of Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies, which was established after the 2021 federal election. She plans to focus her campaign on unaffordability in her large rural riding.

“Jagmeet Singh and the NDP, we’re all about affordability. We’re all about the working people — not billionaires, banks, big corporations. Right? We’re in it for the little people. That’s what drew me to all of this,” Idzan told CFJC Today. “I want to bring a voice to rural communities. Our riding is huge. It goes all the way from Kamloops to Field to Armstrong. Issues are different but similar.”

The Salmon Arm native is also looking at supporting local as the campaign and Donald Trump continues tariffs on Canada.

“We’re supporting one another by buying Canadian, buying local. We need to do more of that. We need to be more self-sufficient, more supportive locally and more aware of what’s going on in the world,” said Idzan

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Idzan, as the NDP candidate, joins Conservative Party’s Mel Arnold, Green Party’s Owen Madden, the People’s Party of Canada’s Michael Henry and the Liberal Party’s Ken Robertson, all looking to become a Member of Parliament in the newly-minted riding.