[url=http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2016/08/22/bc-ndp-ignores-metrotown-demovictio... NDP ignores Metrotown demovictions: Greens[/url]
BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver said the BC NDP are “essentially in dereliction of duty” as the province’s official opposition by failing to speak out on the issue of demovictions in Burnaby’s Metrotown neighbourhood.
“They’re not actually standing up for the citizens they’re supposed to represent,” Weaver said of the NDP, “and, I would argue, for purely political reasons.”
The Metrotown Residents’ Association invited the leader of each provincial party to tour the area on Thursday of last week to get a first-hand look at how hundreds of residents have been forced out of their rental apartments to make way for new high-rise developments approved by Burnaby City Hall, and more are facing the same threat of losing their homes.
Weaver was the only one to accept the offer, and said he has concerns about the speed at which homes are being demolished.