{"id":190829,"date":"2026-09-01T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/190829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:35:18","slug":"liberal-braeden-caley-wins-byelection-in-north-vancouver-capilano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/190829\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Braeden Caley wins byelection in North Vancouver-Capilano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Braeden Caley will be the new MP for the riding of North Vancouver-Capilano after a byelection win on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The contest was <a data-ylk=\"slk:one of three federal byelections;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/livestory\/live-updates-byelection-chicoutimi-le-fjord-vancouver-capilano-beaches-east-york-9.7327074\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">one of three federal byelections<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, with others in Ontario and Quebec also won by the Liberals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Caley had previously worked with Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office and was one of six candidates in the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve given me the greatest honour of my life,&#8221; Caley said in a victory speech. &#8220;The chance to serve this community and the province we are so proud to call home, the country we love.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The seat became vacant in June when then-Liberal MP\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:Jonathan Wilkinson resigned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/byelection-dates-liberal-majority-math-9.7244778\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Wilkinson resigned<\/a>\u00a0to take a job as Canada&#8217;s ambassador to the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wilkinson had held the seat since 2015, and had captured it easily in last year&#8217;s federal election with 60 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Conservatives last won the riding in 2011, when Stephen Harper secured his majority government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tories&#8217; Stephen Curran, NDP&#8217;s Stephen Tweedale, Greens&#8217; Shelley Luce, People&#8217;s Party&#8217;s Ehsan Arjmand and Independent Jeff Monds were the other names on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The wins mean the Liberals have secured a legislative majority in the House of Commons as six other byelections are expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The House is scheduled to return for its fall sitting on Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carney congratulated Caley in a social media post on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I know Braeden&#8217;s values, his work ethic and his character. I look forward to working together once again to build a stronger B.C., and Canada, for all,&#8221; Carney wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braeden Caley will be the new MP for the riding of North Vancouver-Capilano after a byelection win on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[42776,60030,735,122,25608,47434,24608,55270,95,13082],"class_list":["post-190829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-braeden-caley","tag-caley","tag-carney","tag-liberals","tag-monday","tag-stephen-curran","tag-stephen-harper","tag-stephen-tweedale","tag-vancouver","tag-wilkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}