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A Vancouver mayoral candidate who has vowed to crack down on “lawless” cyclists and pedestrians failed to appear at a scheduled hearing Friday over a ticket she received last year for using an electronic device while driving.

When asked about the ticket Tuesday, Wai Young said the officer who issued it to her had mistaken her makeup compact for an electronic device.

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“My compact … is about the same size as an iPhone or a phone. So I was stopped at a red light and I was going to an event so I was powdering my nose — like literally. So they gave me this ticket,” Young said.

She described her compact as small and black. When you open it, there is powder on one side and a mirror on the other.

“I was going straight, stopped at a stop sign in the left-hand lane, there were cars between myself and the sidewalk, and this officer appeared out of nowhere,” she said.

Asked where exactly in Vancouver she had received the ticket, she said she couldn’t remember.