Dear Editor:
I am surprised that the NDP, a party that prides itself on its ethics and integrity, would allow a person of such low ethical standards to represent it.
Based on the publicly available record, Jane Shin's ethical failings should have disqualified her from ever seeking public office let alone serving as an MLA. I find it interesting that Adrian Dix disqualified the NDP candidate in Kelowna for blogging inappropriate remarks about First Nations people and French-speaking Canadians.
Why was a different standard applied when Jane Shin blogged equally inappropriate remarks about Canadians of Chinese ancestry?
There is also the matter of her professional credentials. She calls herself doctor but apparently she has never practised medicine, has never been a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and in fact has a medical degree from an unknown medical school on a small Caribbean island.
In my opinion, that is deceitful in that she clearly intended to mislead the public respecting her professional credentials.
In addition there is the confusion respecting her residency.
I understand that she posted on her website that she has resided in Burnaby for the last two years when in fact it appears that she has been living in Surrey with her mother and has a mailing address only in Burnaby.
The issue here isn't where she lives but that once again she has sought to mislead the public.
I think that the Burnaby-Lougheed voters deserve an explanation from their newly elected MLA and that failing a satisfactory explanation of her behaviour she should resign.
Garth Evans, Burnaby
