Dear Editor:
Re: Green Party distances itself from BFC, Burnaby NOW, Aug. 27.
Yes, Carrie McLaren, it is a big deal.
How can these former Green candidates find anything in common with a group like the Parents' Voice, with their religious right-wing homophobic rhetoric. It is like saying you would politically align yourself with former Alabama Governor George Wallace, even though his views on racial equality were misguided, but he had some sound ideas regarding the economy. As Adriane Carr put it, these views on equality are "make-or-break issues."
In past municipal elections I would always vote for a couple of the Green candidates, however, I would not touch the Parents' Voice with a 10-foot pole. Needless to say, I will not be using any of my votes on the Burnaby First Coalition candidates for council, school board or mayor.
I also have a question for Carrie McLaren: who is she referring to as the "one bad apple" in the barrel of Burnaby First Coalition candidates? Let's all stand back and watch this coalition implode.
Larry E. Melnyk, Burnaby
