Dear Editor:
Re: Burnaby Hospital gets new provincial money,Burnaby NOW,April 7.
It’s a bit rich for Anne Kang to be criticizing the “million-dollar donors” of the B.C. Liberals, when the B.C. NDP has accepted big money from the exact same corporations. To be sure, the Liberals are pawns of big business, and its supporters know that, but the NDP would be no different. Kang recently took it even one step further, stating that the NDP “don’t receive money from big donors.” How stupid do you think we are, Miss?
It is about time that everybody knows the truth, which is that the NDP are fake, controlled opposition, no better than the Liberals. We have a two-party false paradigm, no different from the Democrat and Republican charade across the border, which we all love to laugh at.
According to Elections BC, the NDP have, over the past decade, accepted $60,790 from Teck Resources, a billion-dollar mining company, which produces coal, among other things; $120,000 from the Aquilinis, a billion-dollar real estate group; $51,725 from Spectra Energy, which is now owned by Enbridge, a billion-dollar pipeline transport company; $94,500 from Onni, another billion-dollar real estate developer; $67,565 from Encana, a billion-dollar natural gas and oil company; $66,360 from American Life Group, a billion-dollar Texan insurance company; $129,295 from Canfor, a million-dollar forest product company; $124,500 from Nechako Construction, which serves the "forestry, mining and oil and gas" industries; $15,000 from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; tens of thousands from Big Pharma companies; and so on.
The NDP claim that they will ban such donations. I’m sure they would, but the problem is that the money is already in their bank accounts and they have illustrated that they too are willing to be compromised.
Furthermore, the NDP and Liberals are both rigid and boring parties with antiquated approaches.
The rest of Burnaby looks like the same old, and they must pick their poison, but let the revolution begin in Burnaby-Deer Lake.
Life is too short not to elect an independent.
Elias Ishak, independent MLA candidate for Burnaby-Deer Lake
