FELDSTED: Political parties don’t stand for anything except winning power. We deserve better, but things only get better if we work at it
Every four years, we elect 338 Members of Parliament. All of them are humans with the frailty’s which all humans share . We say dumb things, make mistakes, apologize, pick ourselves up, learn from our errors, and get on with life a bit wiser. Applying this to Karen Wang and the comments attributed to her, and then seeing her disallowed from running because a comment might negatively reflect on the federal Liberal party, is an affront to democracy. Our political system has been turned upside down. If elected, Ms Wang’s job would have been to represent the people of Burnaby South to the best of her ability -- not to defend or protect the image or decisions of a political party. MPs have been turfed from a party for failing to toe the party line – are we okay with that? Political parties telling our representative how they must behave, what they can and cannot say, and how they will vote on public issues should not be acceptable to Canadians. Since when...