Erda Sieglinde Walsh is a former Canadian politician. She served as the member of the

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(MLA) for the riding of Kootenay from 1996 to 2001, as a member of the

British Columbia New Democratic Party The New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) is a social democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum and is one of the two major parties in British Columbia; since ...

. She was an unsuccessful candidate in both the 2001 and 2005 provincial elections. Prior to entering politics, Walsh worked at the Cranbrook Regional Hospital, owned a small business and worked as a

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for the B.C. Ambulance Service. She also served on the city council for Cranbrook.

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