Jonathan Wilkinson resigned<\/a> to take a job as Canada’s ambassador to the European Union.<\/p>\nWilkinson had held the seat since 2015, and captured it easily in last year’s federal election with 60 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n
The Conservatives last won the riding in 2011, when Stephen Harper secured his majority government.<\/p>\n
This time, the Liberals are running Braeden Caley, who most recently served as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s deputy chief of staff.<\/p>\n
Stephen Curran, a North Shore lawyer, is taking his second shot at the riding for the Conservatives after contesting it in the 2025 general election.<\/p>\n
NDP candidate Stephen Tweedale, Green candidate Shelley Luce, Ehsan Arjmand of the People’s Party of Canada, and Independent Jeff Monds round out the ballot.<\/p>\n
Housing costs and traffic and transportation are seen as key campaign issues.<\/p>\n
Elections Canada says about 16,700 people have already cast an advanced ballot in the riding.<\/p>\n
In Monday’s other byelections, Toronto’s Beaches-East York riding is considered a safe seat for the Liberals, while the Conservatives aim to hold Quebec’s Chicoutimi-Le Fjord riding, which was decided in a tight three-way contest last year.<\/p>\n
The Carney Liberals currently hold 170 seats in the House of Commons \u2014 two shy of a majority, though there are seven seats vacant and more byelections expected in the months to come.<\/p>\n
The House is scheduled to return for its fall sitting on Sept. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polls have opened in a byelection to fill a vacant federal seat in North Vancouver. The North Vancouver-Capilano…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,36848,80101,33136,304859,91633,304860,55,87169],"class_list":["post-878456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conservatives","tag-liberals","tag-north-vancouver","tag-stephen-curran","tag-stephen-harper","tag-stephen-tweedale","tag-vancouver","tag-wilkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}