FILIPINO CANADIAN ENTREPRENEUR AND BAKER VIES FOR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SEAT
By Tony A. San Juan, OCT-Retired
Toronto-Canada
August 30, 2021
LIBERAL MP CANDIDATE FOR MISSISSAUGA-STREETSVILLE( ON) RECHIE VALDEZ
RECHIE VALDEZ has been acclaimed on August 15, 2021, to be the Official Candidate for Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Streetsville, Ontario by the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) in the September 20, 2021, federal election.
A mother of two, Rechie Valdez was 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."
Currently, R. Valdez is 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.
Rechie Valdez becomes the third Filipino Canadian woman to having been acclaimed by the Liberal Party of Canada( LPC) to be an official candidate for Member of Parliament in Canada. The other two Liberal MP Candidates are Elizabeth Rosaldo Quinto for Oxford County( Ontario), and Virginia Austria-Bremner for Vancouver-Kingsway(B.C.). Naden Abenes, a Pinay labour union organizer and activist was also acclaimed by her party, the New Democratic Party to run for Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra, British Columbia. Dr. Phil De Luna, a young Filipino male scientist, is the Green Party's MP candidate for Toronto Centre-St. Paul's, Ontario.
Any of the 5 could become the second Filipino Canadian and among the four Pinays, the first Filipina to be elected Member of Parliament since the election of Filipino Canadian MP Rey Pagtakhan more than 22 years ago. The Filipino Canadian communities across Canada are generally hopeful though that all the 4 Pinays and one Pinoy MP candidate will turn out successful to represent and articulate the Filipino voice in the House of Commons. (Tony A. San Juan, OCT-Retired)