Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

Sweet contributed to "Canadian Aid for Russia" in 1943, during World War II.^[5] He was president of Toronto's Tim Buck-Norman Bethune Education Centre during the 1980s.^[6] A dedicated community activist, he was also president of the Humberlea Community Association and chairman of a Metro tax reform council.^[7] He opposed an expansion of Pearson International Airport in 1989.^[8]

He was listed as sixty-six years old during the 1984 campaign.^[9]

The closest he ever came to winning election was in 1978, when he was narrowly defeated for a North York school trustee position.