Florist Frank He selects every flower with care and on Wednesday he will select a new MLA to represent his riding of Vancouver-Fairview.
"I need them to think about how to keep the business steady,'' he said.
Lately, business has been tough. The Broadway and Cambie Street area is in a constant state of construction.
"Too much,'' says Frank He.
Rapid development is just one of the issues that is seen as important by voters in this riding.
Others are the economy, leadership, homelessness and transportation. Security and health are also uppermost in the minds of local residents.
Jenn McGinn is hoping to retain this seat for the New Democrats.
"I guess my tag line is I'm a banker with a heart. I work at VanCity Credit Union, and work as a banker for non-profit community organizations,'' she said.
She's pounding the pavement knowing full well that by-elections typically see a low voter turnout.
The NDP won by fewer than 1,000 votes in 2005.
Margaret MacDiarmid is hoping to take the seat for the Liberals. She's the past president of the B.C. Medical Assoc, and was on the front lines when rural doctors walked off the job in Trail.
"It was back in 2000 when people first said to me (my patients) you should go and become a part of government--we need people like you in government,'' she said.
"I totally dismissed it. But that probably was the thing that sowed the seed."
Seeds are what the Marijuana candidate Jodie Emery is all about.
B.C. Green Party leader Jane Sterk is running too.
About 56,000 people live in Vancouver-Fairview.
It is bounded by Main, 33rd, Arbutus and False Creek.
But the riding itself is shrinking. In the next provincial election, the south side of False Creek will become a new riding of its own.
Whoever wins on Wednesday will be campaigning again in May when Frank's shop is full of spring flowers.
With a report by CTV British Columbia's Carrie Stefanson
