Mississauga, Ontario
Entrepreneur becomes third Filipina-Canadian to run
Tony A. San Juan
Rechie Valdez has been acclaimed today, August 15, 2021, as the candidate for Mississauga-Streetsville by the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), hours after the election was announced.
A mother of two, Rechie Valdez is a corporate banker for 15 years with cross-enterprise expertise in reporting, project management, change management & strategy and turned into a serial creative entrepreneur, and published baker. Rechie professed that she became a “baker + podcaster + non-profit executive + apparel marketer + basketball newbie in a few short years…just before turning 40.”
Valdez is currently the vice-president for sales and marketing of Paper Crane & Co., the Paper Crane Express Catering & Co., and Battle Canada. She is also the owner of Chietopia Bakery, a specialty bakery in Mississauga. A sports enthusiast and fundraiser, she is a graduate of BCS Computer Science from the University of Windsor in 2003 and has completed the Leadership Development Program at BMO Insitute for Learning in 2016.
Valdez becomes the third Filipino Canadian woman to be acclaimed by the Liberal Party of Canada( LPC) as official candidate for Member of Parliament in Canada in the elections to be held on September 20, 2021. The other two Liberal candidates are Elizabeth Rosaldo Quinto for Oxford County( Ontario), and Virginia Austria-Bremner for Vancouver-Kingsway(B.C.).
Phil De Luna, who is running for the Greens in Toronto-St. Paul’s is the fourth Filipino-Canadian seeking office in this election.
No Filipino-Canadian has been elected to Parliament since Liberal MP Dr. Rey Pagtakhan more than 22 years ago.
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There are very few signs in our area and pc has more signs.
Put many signs on my lawn
5313 Roanoke court and ask my neighbours they will allow you to put more signs too.
Hi
No one knows who you are. My friend was going to vote for Gagan Sikand today.
Advertise loudly.
Jane
So, did your read this story and still doesn’t know the candidate. Call her.