Angling for a nomination

Earlier, Public Eye reported Radio Punjab news director Harjinder Thind and former Vancouver South Liberal candidate Shinder Purewal were being targetted by the Tories as possible replacements for Newton North Delta Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal. And now, another name has turned up: Phil Eidsvik executive director of the British Columbia Fisheries Survival Coalition. Mr. Eidsvik, who has campaigned against the establishment of a First Nations-only commercial fishery since 1992, recently ran for the Tory nomination in Burnaby-New Westminster and lost.