The Communist Party of Canada 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.
Geoffrey Da Silva (Eglinton—Lawrence)
Da Silva received 208 votes (0.52%), finishing fifth against Liberal candidate Joe Volpe. He later became a cabinet minister in Guyana.
Mike Phillips (Sudbury)
Mike Phillips was a perennial candidate 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 (York West)
Sweet was a toolmaker, administrator and IBM clerk in private life, and was a perennial candidate 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 World War II. 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.
The closest he ever came to winning election was in 1978, when he was narrowly defeated for a North York school trustee position.