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CALGARY — A new trial date has been set for a former B.C. MLA’s son who was accused of importing drugs after border guards found fentanyl in a parcel addressed to a Calgary address.

Kasimir Tyabji-Sandana of Calgary was arrested in July 2015, not long after Canadian Border Services Agency officers in Vancouver intercepted the package from China.

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A five-day trial, that had been scheduled to begin Monday, will now begin next April.

Tyabji-Sandana, who is 29, remains out on bail.

His mother, Judi Tyabji, was the youngest MLA in the B.C. Legislature when she was elected in 1991.

Her subsequent affair with then-leader Gordon Wilson rocked the B.C. Liberal party in 1993 — they went on to marry and formed the Progressive Democratic Alliance, which folded after the 1996 election.

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