Marxist-Leninist Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election

The Communist Party of Canada - Marxist-Leninist (CPC-ML) fielded 71 candidates in the 2006 federal election. Some of these candidates have their own biography pages. Information about others may be found here.

British Columbia

Dorothy Jean O'Donnell (Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon)

O'Donnell is a lawyer and a perennial candidate for the CPC-ML. [ [http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2001/TMLD084.htm People's Front Fields Eleven Candidates] , "Marxist-Leninist Daily", 14 May 2001, accessed 22 November 2006.] She has also campaigned provincially in British Columbia, as a candidate of the People's Front. She wrote a party editorial for the "National Post" newspaper in 2004, criticizing Canada's election financing laws and denouncing military actions taken by the United States of America in Iraq and by Israel against the Palestinian people. [Dorothy Jean O'Donnell, "Marxist-Leninists will empower Canadians" [editorial] , "National Post", 29 May 2004, A23.] In the same year, she testified before the British Columbia Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform. [ [http://www.citizensassembly.bc.ca/resources/Lillooet_presentations/Odonnell.pdf Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform: Presentation Summary] , Lillooet Public Hearing, 16 June 2004, accessed 22 November 2006.]

O'Donnell graduated from law school in 1990, was called to the bar in 1991, and completed a Master's Degree in 1995 reviewing the history of the foster care system. She is primarily active in family law. [ [http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/issues04/052104/news/052104nn4.html Mike Chouinard, "Communist throws her hat into the fray"] , "Chilliwack Times", 11 May 2004, accessed 22 November 2006.]

Francesco (Frank) Chilelli (Bramalea—Gore—Malton)

Chilelli joined the Marxist-Leninist Party in 1996, when he was a graduate student at the University of Toronto. His thesis, published in 1998, examined liberal and communist concepts of distributive justice. [ [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0014/MQ33928.pdf Frank Chilelli, "The World as it is versus the World as it ought to be"] , University of Toronto, 1998.] He was thirty-eight years old in 2006, and was listed as a philosophy teacher for the Peel District School Board. [Nicolaas Van Rijn and Patty Winsa, "Davenport", "Toronto Star", 30 May 1997, A14; [http://www.northpeel.com/br/election2006/bgm/story/3254857p-3769089c.html Heather Ennis, "Bringing a message to Canadians"] , "Brampton Guardian", 11 January 2006.] He is a founder of the Bramalea-Gore-Malton Citizens Committee, and a past volunteer with the CARE Connection. [ [http://www.northpeel.com/br/election2006/bgm/ Bramalea—Gore—Malton riding summary] , "Brampton Guardian", online edition, accessed 13 July 2006.] Chilelli has called for Canadian soldiers to be brought home from Afghanistan.

=Elaine Couto (St. Catharines)=

Couto is a perennial candidate for the Marxist-Leninist Party. She first campaigned for public office in the 1993 federal election as a candidate of the Canadian Party for Renewal (CPR), an unregistered party affiliated with the CPC-ML ("Hamilton Spectator", 21 October 1993). In every federal election since then, she has campaigned as an official CPC-ML candidate. She also campaigned for provincial office in 1999, and appeared on the ballot as an independent candidate as the CPC-ML is not registered at the provincial level.

Couto worked on the "New Hamilton Weekly" journal in the early 1990s, along with fellow CPC-ML member Rolf Gerstenberger ("Hamilton Spectator", 11 September 1992). In her private life, she has worked as a receptionist and sales manager.

. Nicholas C. (Nick) Lin (Trinity—Spadina)

Lin is a worker in the healthcare sector, and a frequent candidate for public office. He has been a member of the Communist Youth Union of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), the Toronto Student Project and the Youth Organizing Movement, as well as the Student Christian Movement of Canada. [http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2003/D33179.htm] Lin has emphasized youth and education issues in his campaigns. [http://www.thevarsity.ca/media/paper285/news/2003/09/18/News/U.Of-T.Candidate.Goes.It.Alone.In.Provincial.Election-469948.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.thevarsity.ca] He was 31 years old at the time of the 2003 provincial election.

He has campaigned as an independent candidate in two provincial elections, as the CPC-ML is not registered at the provincial level.

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