Dear Editor:
To all those who admired my candidacy, you nonetheless knew it would be a close election, and it is understandable that you evidently cared most about who runs the province, not about the hindrance of party discipline or any of my other themes.
In retrospect, I admit it was a bit naive to think that I could have changed the culture of that dynamic. But perhaps with the Greens ending majority governance, the Elias Ishak of the future will have a more sympathetic audience.
Interestingly, students also voted in this election. The children at Maywood, where I attended a debate, supported me with 30 per cent of their vote, as much as the Liberals, Greens and Conservatives combined.
The generations after ours will change many things, and I love them for that, and I love the child in each and every one of you.
I would like to congratulate Anne Kang on her victory ... I wish her well! I can read people very quickly, and I can tell you all, in case you haven't met her, that she is an exceptionally good person. I don't mind losing to her. The depth in her eyes is of the finest calibre.
May peace be upon you all, and may we never let politics blind us from the fact that we are all brothers and sisters, under the same glorious skies.
Elias Ishak, independent candidate for Burnaby-Deer Lake
