{"id":379,"date":"2014-12-18T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/18\/new-conservative-candidate-for-laval_17\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:42","slug":"new-conservative-candidate-for-laval_17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/18\/new-conservative-candidate-for-laval_17\/","title":{"rendered":"New Conservative Candidate for Laval-Les-\u00celes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">By Michelle Pucci<\/b><br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/>There&#8217;s a new federal Conservative candidate in Laval. Architect and ten-year resident Roland Dick ran unopposed for candidacy in Laval\u2019s western riding, Laval Les \u00celes, and joined the race for next year\u2019s federal elections after years as a Conservative party member.<br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/>\u201cI\u2019ve been involved in Laval for many activities for years and years and years,\u201d Dick said, speaking about his work as a volunteer in the community. Dick listed volunteer partnerships with the city for a blood drive in 2007 and a new project he\u2019s working on in Pont-Viau to provide warm meals to homeless people called Bonheur du ciel.&nbsp;<br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/>Dick, who moved to Montreal in 1990 from Lebanon is also the president of the World Lebanese Cultural Union, but insists he identifies completely as a Lavallois. \u201cI work as a Lavallois, I don\u2019t work just for my community,\u201d he said. \u201cI want [the community] to be fully integrated, I push for integration.\u201d&nbsp;<br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/>Dick is a father of three, and emphasizes his children\u2019s ties to Laval and Montreal after growing up here, but also as a guiding point for his family first conservative values. Without a defined platform so early in the campaigning stage, he says he\u2019ll push for fewer taxes and more programs like children allowances. He also believes in the Conservative\u2019s record with economic policies and job creation.&nbsp;<br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" \/>\u201cIt\u2019s a different era now,\u201d he said, speaking about the riding\u2019s Liberal tendencies, until Fran\u00e7ois Pilon from the New Democratic Party was voted in in 2011. \u201cI know people will vote for the party leader, but I also think people will vote for the people that are working for them,\u201d Dick said. He is optimistic he can expand the party\u2019s membership in Laval. With a degree from University of Montreal in architecture , Dick now runs Archi-Tech, a Laval-based firm. The company he says works exclusively on private planning and construction projects, mostly in the medical field\u2014never bidding on public projects, which have been the source of corruption scandals in the city over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michelle Pucciwww.thesuburban.comThere&#8217;s a new federal Conservative candidate in Laval. Architect and ten-year resident Roland Dick ran unopposed for candidacy in Laval\u2019s western riding, Laval Les \u00celes, and joined the race for next year\u2019s federal elections after years as a Conservative party member.\u201cI\u2019ve been involved in Laval for many activities for years and years and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Conservative Candidate for Laval-Les-\u00celes - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/18\/new-conservative-candidate-for-laval_17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Conservative Candidate for Laval-Les-\u00celes - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Michelle Pucciwww.thesuburban.comThere&#8217;s a new federal Conservative candidate in Laval. 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