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Voters in Surrey haven’t had this much face time with Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer since — well, since ever, actually.

The Liberal prime minister and the Conservative opposition leader have both made two separate swings through Surrey in advance of a fiercely contested Dec. 11 byelection.

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“It’s going to be competitive,” Scheer said Monday during his latest visit to South Surrey-White Rock. “It was close last time and it could be close again.”

And that’s clearly annoying to Scheer and the Conservatives, because the riding has normally been considered safe turf for the Tories.

The seat became vacant when former Conservative MP Dianne Watts resigned to run for the B.C. Liberal leadership. Watts narrowly retained the riding in the 2015 federal election, despite a Trudeaumania wave that gave the Liberals a record 17 B.C. seats.

The Liberals have a great local candidate in Gordon Hogg, the popular former provincial MLA and White Rock mayor.