不得不说华人最具有自我反省精神，华人参政或者当选后离开华人社区比较明智？
另外今天toronto sun也有类似的文章，老白作者谈到其他族裔都在玩这个,找不到那篇文章了。既然都玩，为什么单挑华人社区下手judge？
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colu...not-remarkable-all-parties-play-race-politics
LILLEY: Wang case not remarkable. All parties play race politics
Karen Wang’s foray into ethnic and race based politicking wasn’t the first time that’s happened in Canada and won’t be the last.
Unfortunately.
Wang is the now former Liberal candidate who resigned this week after it was reported she had posted on WeChat, a Chinese language social media site, effectively saying, vote for me I’m Chinese and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh isn’t.
“If we can increase the voting rate, as the only Chinese candidate in this riding, if I can garner 16,000 votes I will easily win the by-election, control the election race and make history! My opponent in this by-election is the NDP candidate Singh of Indian descent!” Wang posted.
At first she defended the comments, then said they were badly phrased and then apologized to Singh. Finally, she claimed a campaign volunteer has sent out the post.
All of it was a little weak.
The comments were clearly racist, to claim otherwise would be foolish but it exposed in a very public way how ethno-politics is played in Canada. All the parties do it to a degree, even Singh in his bid for the NDP leadership.
I’m not claiming Singh has made racist comments but a look at his campaign win shows he himself benefited from ethno-politics to become NDP leader.
Singh won the NDP leadership with strong support in the Greater Toronto Area, in particular his home riding of Brampton, an area with a large Indian-Canadian population and strong Sikh presence. His second strongest support came from Vancouver’s suburbs, an area with a similar profile.
There’s no doubt he drew on strong support from South Asian voters. In fact, many of the donations came from people with Punjabi and Sikh names according to a recent report in the Vancouver Sun.
“Elections Canada data shows Singh collected $603,000 in the year of the NDP leadership convention. More than nine out of 10 of his donors in that year had South Asian names, specifically Punjabi and Sikh,” the story said.
In the past there have been ridings that would have seen parties seeking an Irish candidate or an Italian one. Recently a Liberal candidate won likely in part because she was Greek.
Emmanuella Lambropoulos is a 28 year-old former school teacher who became the MP for Montreal’s St. Laurent riding because she was able to bring out the Greek vote. She successfully portrayed herself as the Greek candidate to beat an experienced former provincial cabinet minister.
This is the mild version of ethno-politics, what Lambropoulos and Singh did, and it has been practiced by all parties for decades but at times it can get dangerous and dirty.
另外今天toronto sun也有类似的文章，老白作者谈到其他族裔都在玩这个,找不到那篇文章了。既然都玩，为什么单挑华人社区下手judge？
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colu...not-remarkable-all-parties-play-race-politics
LILLEY: Wang case not remarkable. All parties play race politics
Karen Wang’s foray into ethnic and race based politicking wasn’t the first time that’s happened in Canada and won’t be the last.
Unfortunately.
Wang is the now former Liberal candidate who resigned this week after it was reported she had posted on WeChat, a Chinese language social media site, effectively saying, vote for me I’m Chinese and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh isn’t.
“If we can increase the voting rate, as the only Chinese candidate in this riding, if I can garner 16,000 votes I will easily win the by-election, control the election race and make history! My opponent in this by-election is the NDP candidate Singh of Indian descent!” Wang posted.
At first she defended the comments, then said they were badly phrased and then apologized to Singh. Finally, she claimed a campaign volunteer has sent out the post.
All of it was a little weak.
The comments were clearly racist, to claim otherwise would be foolish but it exposed in a very public way how ethno-politics is played in Canada. All the parties do it to a degree, even Singh in his bid for the NDP leadership.
I’m not claiming Singh has made racist comments but a look at his campaign win shows he himself benefited from ethno-politics to become NDP leader.
Singh won the NDP leadership with strong support in the Greater Toronto Area, in particular his home riding of Brampton, an area with a large Indian-Canadian population and strong Sikh presence. His second strongest support came from Vancouver’s suburbs, an area with a similar profile.
There’s no doubt he drew on strong support from South Asian voters. In fact, many of the donations came from people with Punjabi and Sikh names according to a recent report in the Vancouver Sun.
“Elections Canada data shows Singh collected $603,000 in the year of the NDP leadership convention. More than nine out of 10 of his donors in that year had South Asian names, specifically Punjabi and Sikh,” the story said.
In the past there have been ridings that would have seen parties seeking an Irish candidate or an Italian one. Recently a Liberal candidate won likely in part because she was Greek.
Emmanuella Lambropoulos is a 28 year-old former school teacher who became the MP for Montreal’s St. Laurent riding because she was able to bring out the Greek vote. She successfully portrayed herself as the Greek candidate to beat an experienced former provincial cabinet minister.
This is the mild version of ethno-politics, what Lambropoulos and Singh did, and it has been practiced by all parties for decades but at times it can get dangerous and dirty.
