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Port Moody city councillor to run for provincial seat

Coun. Rick Glumac will face BC Liberal MLA Linda Reimer at the polls in next year's provincial election.
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A Port Moody city councillor will face BC Liberal MLA Linda Reimer at the polls in next year's provincial election.

On Sunday night, at the Port Moody recreation complex, Coun. Rick Glumac clinched the BC NDP nomination — on the first ballot — for the riding of Port Moody-Coquitlam.

Glumac was up against political newcomer Adel Gamar, a former policy fellow at Harvard Law School who occasionally writes columns for The Tri-City News.

In 2013, Reimer beat BC NDP MLA Joe Trasolini by 437 votes. She spent $97,626 to win the seat versus Trasolini's $130,654. 

Glumac said he anticipates the May 9, 2017, race also to be close.

On Tuesday, he told The Tri-City News he will likely take an unpaid leave of absence from his council duties once the provincial campaign ramps up in early spring.

Asked about whether he would resign his civic seat should he beat Reimer, Glumac was hesitant. "I need to talk to other members of council and the people in the community about that," he said. "My preference is to avoid a byelection. I don't want them to bare that extra cost."

In a news release, the two-term councillor was congratulated on his nomination win by party leader John Horgan, saying Glumac "has a proven track record of fighting to make people lives better. He shares my belief that government should always be on your side, working for you."

Meanwhile, this Sunday, Glumac and Horgan as well as Tri-City NDP MLAs Jodie Wickens and Mike Farnworth will be at the nomination meeting for Coquitlam-Maillardville MLA Selina Robinson.

Robinson is set to be acclaimed at the event, which starts at 2 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion branch 263 (1025 Ridgeway Ave., Coquitlam) and is open to the public.

Here are the provincial match-ups in the Tri-Cities so far:

• Coquitlam-Maillardville: Steve Kim (BC Liberal) versus Selina Robinson (BC NDP)

• Coquitlam-Burke Mountain: Joan Isaacs (BC Liberal) versus Jodie Wickens (BC NDP)

• Port Moody-Coquitlam: Linda Reimer (BC Liberal) versus Rick Glumac (BC NDP)

• Port Coquitlam: Mike Farnworth (BC NDP)

jcleugh@tricitynews.com