Municipal election campaigns ramping up post federal election
Global News
Now that Canada's federal political landscape has been decided, Alberta's municipal candidates are busy hustling for your votes.
The federal election threw a wrench into the campaigns of many municipal council hopefuls, but now they’re ready to work overtime to get out the vote locally.
Byron Vass is running for city councillor in Ward papastew. Like many other candidates, he’s worried about the impact of back to back elections on voters.
“The biggest challenge has been the burnout people are feeling with all the elections and all the door knocking,” he explained.
“There’s people that come to the doors and they’re not feeling like they really want to chat, because they’ve already spent too much time at the doors with candidates from either the municipal or federal election.”
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In Karhiio, Charan Saggu had a different problem when trying to connect with voters.
“A lot of voters were confused – what door knocking are we doing: for federal or city?”
So he decided to put his campaign on hold for the week leading up to the federal election. But now, his team is working overtime.
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