On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Alex Montagano walked along Avenue King Edward in Montreal, knocking on doors to make his pitch.
Montagano is not a traditional federal election candidate. His campaign materials show him in a conductor’s uniform — a nod to his passion for trains — and he stamps his fliers with a ticket punch.
He’s running in Monday’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount byelection under the banner of the Centrist Party of Canada, a party that has never elected a federal candidate.
But Montagano — or “Trainman,” as he identifies himself to voters — said a vote for him is a protest vote, intended to send a message to the Liberal Party of Canada.
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