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Canadian racism and hatred against brown people is the only reason that Air India was blown up. Govts of the time felt that browns were subhumans and it didnt matter if they killed each other.
Canada must smash down with a hammer on anyone even remotely connected to that ghastly crime. A crime in which white Canadians are complicit.
you'll need someone to translate Mrs. Siu's press conference for you. At the news release reporters took the opportunity to ask about the Malik case - if you're patient you'll hear Wai's sound bites.
AM1470 Wai Yeung, Federal Election, Press release: , not connected Malik Part1:Wai Young, Federal Election, OMINI TV Press release , Family affair 7 not connected with Malik
So much for those non-issues (Air India and family feuds).
Yes, and losing all the debates didn't matter either, nor being censured by embarassed hosts for poor behavior on every radio program I heard her on. Seems that being associated with the ruling party is by far the most important characteristic to the voters of V.South.
Or maybe Ujjal's best before date had expired before the last election but he remained on the shelf until he had to be thrown out. He was really starting to give off a stench and his constant over the top attacks on the NDP meant he had no hope and hell of picking up support. His hissy fit on the day after the 2008 election when he ranted at the NDP and scolded the public for not supporting his party was his last hurrah.
The East Indian community were not pleased with Dosanjh washing their dirty lined in public.
If Meena spends the next 4 years working the riding she will win in 2015. But Meena has to start now, and I hope she understands that.
Good riddance to Dosanjh, and the CBC News Dept.
Terry Platt, a BC Ferry worker, in Sea-to-Sky came second - amazing!!!
I'm not going to 'good ridance' Dosanjh's defeat, despite my general disaproval of the man, because Wai Young is an embaressment to the City of Vancouver and the people who voted for that flake without knowing more about her should be ashamed of themselves. You folks can claim the controversies were 'made up', but I strongly disagree because she's essentially unfit for office, though I suppose she's fit to be a Conservative MP. A) her disrespect for the constituents by skipping debates, b) her disconnect from her family as a result of allegedly stealing money from an estate and her c) not knowing who Repudiman Singh Malik was and not rejecting his endorsement the second they heard about it are all real issues that shine light on her lack of judgement. Frankly the last one is rather worrisome not only because of his role with the Air India case and terrorism in general, but because it's an endorsement of the dirty ethnocentric politics the Conservatives have been playing. You know the whole "ethnic dress" crap and the "very ethnic ridings" game. In addition to the you know, little stuff, like her being a right-wing tool.
Yeah, well I'll see your Young and raise you a Duncan. Both Conservative assholes with the same respect for democracy.
This,
Mind you, to be fair the Grits have played this game for ages as well. They are both equally culpable in this dirty game.
I wonder what kind of MP Wai Young will make. I can't see her lying low..
Sorry Pogo you missed my point. Duncan is a white male asshole. There are plenty of them vying for the job of most disgusting piece of skin to get elected as a Conservative MP. He hides during elections and has been heard at the rod and gun club making nasty nasty comments about various ethnicities.
With Dosanjh gone, can Meena Wong position herself to challenge for Vancouver South in 4 years?
She ran a very strong credible campaign this time, but got squeezed out by the sense that this was a 2 way race between Young and Dosanjh.
In a riding where 45% of the population is of Chinese ethnicity (perhaps higher after the new census results and resdistribution), the NDP has got to be able to compete for those votes. Perhaps 4 years of Harper making family visas more difficult and ignoring the needs of cities will have an impact on community concerns here.
An attractive multilingual candidate like Wong deserves a seat in Parliament - if not here, hopefully one of the added seats in BC will be drawn in a way that makes it possible for her to win.
I think there's more to it than ethnicity or being a good candidate. Much of the riding is made up of wealthy people not necessarily disposed to support the NDP. I think this cuts across "cultural" lines. However, I supported Meena's campaign and I would certainly support her again if she decided to run in a byelection or in the next election. Here's hoping Young manages to discredit herself even more throroughly in power than she did outside of it.
The first thing you must remember is there is no single Chinese vote. In the riding I live in their are many Canadian born people of Chinese descent. If you want to really piss them off just imply they have immigration issues. There is also the Hong Kong expat community that is largely but again not exclusively made up of business class immigrants. People who bought their passports with investment money. Then there is the Taiwanese Chinese immigrant community and the mainland Chinese as well. There are pro democracy refugees from China and economic immigrants who have no major problem with the current Chinese regime. Language outreach is essential and having volunteers from as many communities as possible is also essential in winning urban ridings in Metro Vancouver. Successful campaigns are based on people talking to their neighbours about the issues in terms that are mutually understood. If it is a "we" need to reach "them" situation the riding is in big trouble. IMO It is when people from the various communities work together on strategic messaging that campaigns begin to resonate. It is important to have a consistent message as well as a nuanced one for specific demographics and that takes a diverse group of campaign volunteers.
Well, then someone should try to get these comments on tape and use them against him.
Whatever Don Davies did right this time needs to be copied. Part of it was probably incumbency and hard work as an MP, but he went from a semi-threatened incumbent to a solid first place finisher with over 50% of the vote.
And unfortunately the way Vancouver South is drawn now means that it's not a likely NDP pick up. But once BC gets more ridings and the boundaries are redrawn assuming the western portions of the riding (i.e. west of Cambie Street) are redistributed away it could become competitive.
In fact, Vanc South was probably most competitive in its 1997-2000 incarnation, when its boundaries were shifted eastward to include a big chunk of Burnaby. Unfortunately, that wasn't an era of fed NDP competitiveness in this kind of seat.
Oh, and to shift next door to Richmond: I dunno if anyone foresaw Pesky Joe practically tying the NDP for a poor second.
'The East Indian community were not pleased with Dosanjh washing their dirty lined in public.
Good riddance to Dosanjh, and the CBC News Dept.'
If by washing dirty laundry in public, you mean courageously revealing Sikh terrorism and being beaten to within an inch of his life for his efforts, then those fundamentalist a&&holes who resent his revelations can go to hell.
The racist white establishment who dismissed the Air India bombing as nothing but a meaningless intra-brown squabble, and the fundamentalists who want white Canada to pay no heed to SIkh terrorism since it doesnt slaughter or affect whites, are two flip sides of the same bigoted coin.