Romeo Zapata has always done his part during elections, and told The Leaf the last time around, he cycled around with a Liberal sign, the party he has always supported federally since he first emigrated to Canada. But this year was different. 

“We need to know our limits. Every country has a budget,” he explained, and said that Canada should do a better job at explaining ours. He has also felt a lot of camaraderie in his newly chosen political affiliation. Zapata said he sported a “Canada First” shirt while travelling to Ottawa, and while trying to buy gas at a Costco station, and and fussing with his membership card, a young man stepped up to tell him he liked his shirt; because of it, he was going to buy his gas. 

(Although The Leaf reached out to the Conservative candidate, as was common to news sources across the country, we did not receive any communication from the candidate or their office).