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The wildfires threatening communities in British Columbia's interior are now a dominant issue in this federal election campaign as candidates from all the parties try to win over B.C. voters who are in danger of losing everything.
(JENNA WHEELER / iNFOnews.ca) May 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM It's the long weekend in May and we're still in the middle of a pandemic so a federal election and how local candidates are chosen likely isn't on the radar for most people. But there’s a mostly secretive process going on in the background that will determine who is going to speak for the residents of the five Thompson and Okanagan ridings in the region in the next federal parliament and most voters will have no part in that process. Constituents can only vote for the candidate the party has chosen. Secretive is the ap...