Ex-Tory candidate has suspicions about why his Chinese-Canadian volunteers quit

Longtime B.C. politician Dave Hayer knew his campaign people. And his people included Chinese Canadians. They volunteered for him. They voted for him. And then in his 2021 campaign to become a federal Conservative MP, they vanished. The former MLA was running to represent the riding of Fleetwood-Port Kells, drawing on the same base of volunteers from past elections in the populous and culturally diverse Metro Vancouver city of Surrey. By the end of the campaign, most volunteers of Chinese descent had dropped out, fearing for themselves and their families, Hayer said. "They told me there was a lot of…