Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Christy Clark and the future of the Liberal Party in BC


In the past several days, the NDP questioned the Liberal's on their approach on conducting a research on winning ethnic votes in the upcoming Provincial election. This research- a 17 page document spread through private addresses may have been made through the use of taxpayer's money. Parts of this document shows that they will apologize for the Chinese Head Tax in hopes of winning the Chinese votes. Calling a quick meeting this past weekend, Clark once again apologized for this document. Following criticism from her own caucus, Clark's position as the leader of the Liberal's is in danger. Shortly after the revelation of this document, Clark's deputy chief of staff resigned. It has been reported that several Liberal MP's have asked Clark to step down. Overall, the Liberal's efforts in gaining ethnic votes has been overturned by the revelation by the official opposition.

This relates to Law 12 as we live in a democratic country. Therefore, Members of Parliament are allowed to resign if they are dissatisfied with their current leader. Also, in the upcoming Provincial election in May, if the citizens of British Columbia decide to go with another leader, they will vote for the appropriate leader.

Source: The Province The Province