Dear Editor:
I’d just like to remind everyone that we are blessed to be living in Burnaby. Whenever I hear about anything political, it always seems to be negative. And the mayor, there is always someone criticizing him. Even in personal relations, we often tend to only say something about the character of someone else when we find a fault in it. But what about the rest of the time?
Derek Corrigan has been around for a long time and there is obviously a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with unions or developers. He is obviously a respectable, kind-hearted and competent person, and one can know that without even meeting him. There is such callous negativity out there, and sometimes that says more about ourselves than it does about the object of that negativity. I have been guilty of this; it is easy to do when you mix passion, let alone the youthful variety, with politics.
But it truly does say something about ourselves – such relentless negativity. Back in high school, I had the honour of volunteering for his lovely wife, Kathy, at her MLA office. Though I never met her husband, I am sure that he is just as human.
At the end of the day, we are all human. Let us not forget that. Everything is a work in progress and nobody or one thing is to blame for everything wrong in the world.
Elias Ishak, Burnaby
