Just how optimistic are the provincial New Democrats about their chances in the next election? Optimistic enough that Tom Sigurdson is rumoured to be coming back from Ontario to run against ex-MLA Pietro Calendino in the nomination race for Burnaby North. Mr. Siggurdson was formerly the executive director of the British Columbia and Yukon Building and Construction Trades Council, an umbrella group representing 45,000 unionized construction workers. But he left that position in 2003 to become the director of political and legislative affairs for the Building and Construction Trades Department, a national organization coordinating 15 affiliated construction industry trade unions. If Mr. Siggurdson gets the nomination, he'll face off against Liberal backbencher Richard Lee who won the traditional New Democrat seat with 54 percent of the vote in 2001.