The

Communist Party of Canada The Communist Party of Canada (french: Parti communiste du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada, founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality. Although it does not currently have any parliamentary representation, the party's can ...

fielded several candidates in the 1988 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.

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Papineau—Saint-Michel: Line Chabot

Line Chabot was a Communist Party candidate in two federal elections and one provincial election. She described herself as a bookseller in 1984.

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Geoffrey Da Silva ( Eglinton—Lawrence)

Da Silva received 208 votes (0.52%), finishing fifth against Liberal candidate

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. He later became a

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Mike Phillips (
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)

Mike Phillips was a

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for the Communist Party at the federal and provincial levels. He was a 24-year-old electrician during his first campaign, and later worked as a labour reporter for the '' Canadian Tribune''.

John (Jack) C. Sweet (
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Sweet was a toolmaker, administrator and IBM clerk in private life, and was a

for federal, provincial and municipal office in North York. He joined the Communist Party at age eighteen and was a member for more than fifty years, working for a time in the organization's Toronto headquarters. Sweet contributed to "Canadian Aid for Russia" in 1943, during

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. He was president of Toronto's Tim Buck-Norman Bethune Education Centre during the 1980s. A dedicated community activist, he was also president of the Humberlea Community Association and chairman of a Metro tax reform council. He opposed an expansion of Pearson International Airport in 1989. He was listed as sixty-six years old during the 1984 campaign.Mary Gooderham, "In York West, main candidates are Italian", ''Globe and Mail'', 1 September 1984, P19. The closest he ever came to winning election was in

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, when he was narrowly defeated for a North York school trustee position.

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