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Former Liberal candidate for Burnaby South Karen Wang’s pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

The 43-year-old mother of two and daycare operator wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other senior Liberal party brass Thursday, withdrawing the resignation she sent out the day before.

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“I want a second chance,” she told the Toronto Sun early Thursday. “I was given advice by the party to step down from the campaign, but now that I see I have been labelled as racist, I realize that it was the wrong decision.”

And she took her appeal directly Trudeau.

In her letter, the Christian woman, who has a bible study class every Tuesday at her house, asked for a review and an opportunity to make amends and get back her nomination.

“I would like to withdraw my Liberal candidacy resignation and would like the party to reconsider me a second chance to run for the byelection,” she wrote in the letter which was also sent to Liberal party president Susan Cowan. “On my WeChat post in Chinese I said that my opponent was of Indian descent. I meant no disrespect by that comment. As far as I am concerned it was merely a statement of fact. I did not mean it as a racial comment.”