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The federal election is almost five months away but campaign volunteers are already knocking on doors in search of potential voters, a time-honoured political strategy that doesn’t always go smoothly.

After a verbal altercation on a Caswell Hill doorstep last Saturday that led him to reassign a volunteer, Conservative Party of Canada candidate Brad Redekopp is urging everyone to remain calm and avoid arguments.

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“Every party’s going to have a lot of volunteers out there doing different things … Even if you don’t agree with what the person might be saying, I think we need to be respectful,” the Saskatoon West candidate said this week.

Jack Hicks, a well-known activist, described in a letter to Elections Canada an incident on his doorstep. The letter detailing the incident was copied to Redekopp’s campaign office and provided to the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

Hicks was at home on a recent afternoon when a young man rang the doorbell and explained that he was canvassing for Redekopp. He said he told the man “in fairly frank terms” that no one in his home would be voting Conservative.