Group calls for Premier Christy Clark to resign
Posted March 3, 2013 12:35 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS1130) – Some members of BC’s governing Liberal party are publicly calling for Premier Christy Clark to resign over a scandal involving the wooing of ethnic voters.
The party members describe themselves as “especially with ethnic background” of Indo- and South Asian descent.
They say they agreed over a Sunday breakfast meeting in Surrey to call for Clark to step down.
Their call comes hours ahead of an emergency cabinet meet she’s called today to address the scandal.
In a news release the party members say that 89 members passed a one-line declamation because Clark has made “the ethnic vote a joke” in the province.
Vikram Bajwa is a member of the party and the South Asian community, and he thinks the party is better off without her leadership. “The way that things are going and 8 or ten weeks ahead, it’s time for her to speak up otherwise we won’t be able to speak up for the next five years.”
To make matters worse, he adds the Times of India Awards which the province fought to bring in is a complete waste of taxpayers money.
Bajwa is dismayed by the scandal. “I don’t think it would hurt, as a matter of fact it will benefit the party, as of now, they will get no more than ten seats, if she resigns then we will comeback.”
Clark issued a letter of apology last Thursday after a plan was leaked that urged the Liberals to co-ordinate resources to focus on winning over ethnic voters.
Some Liberal caucus members had openly criticized Clark over the proposed strategy and on Friday she accepted the resignation of her deputy chief of staff, who wrote the document.
