Transportation company president John Wilson will represent the BC Conservatives in the race for Esquimalt-Colwood, rounding out a full slate of candidates for the riding.
In late August, BC United candidate Meagan Brame, a former Esquimalt councillor and daycare operator, turned down an offer to join the BC Conservatives when BC United leader Kevin Falcon announced suspension of the party’s campaign to avoid a right-wing vote split. That left the NDP scrambling for a candidate. For a time, it also meant the BC Greens’ Camille Currie — a small-business owner who established B.C. Health Care Matters, a community patient group that has raised awareness of the family doctor crisis — was the only candidate in the riding.