Pourquoi Monsieur Le Premier Ministre?

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Conservatives rejected Karen Wang before her short-lived Liberal candidacy, MP says

MP Michelle Rempel called Wang's WeChat post "racism plain and simple," says CPC had concerns about her judgment

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Burnaby South Liberals warned the national party about issues with Karen Wang

A source in the Burnaby South association – who didn’t want their name used – told me this morning that local Liberals warned national Liberal officials about potential trouble with Wang, currently embroiled in a controversy over a social media post that dragged race into the byelection.

“We told the party she’s hard to handle,” the source told me.

Alas, they didn’t listen and she was nominated as the candidate to run against federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

I wrote a blog yesterday about how there were warning signs from her ineffective run for the BC Liberals in Burnaby-Deer Lake – she pulled a silly no-show at an all-candidates meeting and was pretty much invisible during the campaign.

Perhaps the federal Liberals wished she had remained equally invisible.

Today, Wang dropped another bombshell by releasing a letter she had written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saying she was withdrawing her resignation. She wants another chance.

That request has been quickly rejected by the Liberals, but Wang is scheduled to hold a press conference today at 1 p.m. at the Burnaby public library next to Metrotown. Maybe she’ll decide she wants to run as an independent.

We’ll be there to see if she shows up.

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She showed troubling signs of terrible political judgment that made me wonder if she’s fit for public office. We'll never know as she has resigned as the candidate for the riding. 

A prime example of her bad judgment was something I witnessed last Saturday night at Burnaby’s Michael J. Fox Theatre. The Burnaby Spring Festival Gala was taking place with nearly 200 performers putting on a show to raise money for the Burnaby Hospital Foundation.

There were a lot of federal, provincial and civic politicians on hand, and many of them were brought on stage to simply greet the crowd. But it was a decidedly non-political event. It was all about raising money for a worthy cause.

But Wang decided to take advantage of this event to do what I consider really tacky campaigning.

She stood at entrance to the theatre and was handing out campaign flyers to everyone who walked in the door. I walked in, and she thrust the flyer into my hand even though I didn’t ask for it. Skilled politicians go to fundraisers to be seen supporting causes, but they dial back the heavy campaigning because it comes across as sleazy.

Wang doesn’t understand this.

I wasn’t with the NOW during the 2017 provincial election, but spoke to the reporters covering it and they confirmed that Wang pulled a bit of a disappearing act during the campaign. She pulled a no-show at an all-candidates meeting – something exploited by eventual Burnaby-Deer Lake winner Anne Kang.

Wang also didn’t return the NOW’s phone calls during the campaign to comment on local issues. She did email answers to a questionnaire, but was little-seen during the campaign.

This is troubling behaviour for somebody running for public office.

It speaks to bad judgment when you won’t face the voters or the media.

Then on Tuesday, things got even worse for Wang. The publication StarMetro Vancouver published a sweet scoop (mad props to the great work by reporter Melanie Green and the rest of the team) about something Wang posted on WeChat on the weekend. Basically, Wang dragged the issue of race into the campaign by not only highlighting how she was the only Chinese-Canadian candidate, but “singling out” the race of her opponent, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

She has since deleted the post, but you can read the story here, although it’s behind a paywall.

The condemnation has rightly been swift over the post. Political commentator Warren Kinsella tweeted that “suggesting that your race is superior to your opponent’s race should disqualify you from running for Parliament.” He also called Wang a “race-baiting candidate.”

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