Surrey BC Riding Update: Surrey North
September 26, 2008 · By Shane Edwards
The fur is flying over Dona Cadman‘s apparent inaccessibility, though it seems to me it is in the eye of the beholder.
While it is true I haven’t seen a lot of public appearance announcements, by the same token I haven’t seen a lot of any other candidate either. The Toronto Star took a boo at this riding today:
Dona Cadman has kept a low profile in her campaign to become the Conservative MP for Surrey North. The address for her campaign office was not advertised on her website until yesterday, requests for interviews from many national media outlets have been declined and even local media have noted that her campaign office hasn’t been releasing her event schedule.
Interestingly, her campaign office has been prominent in the riding since the opening day of the campaign, with campaign signs all over its prominent location on a main thoroughfare in the heart of Whalley near the corner of King George Highway and 104th. Trust me – everyone in the riding knows where it is.
They managed to find someone who doesn’t like her, without an opposing interview which is too bad. All I know is this: with all the media stink about the supposed bribe, I think it speaks volumes about what really happened that she is running for the Conservatives now, and that her friend, former NDP MP Penny Priddy decided not to run against her.
Chuck had always viewed being an MP as a responsibility, to accomplish a specific aim. How is it that his widow, who never to my knowledge grandstanded or made an investment life as a public figure, now suddenly can be framed as some kind of subtle publicity-hound, carefully avoiding media scrutiny so that she can ride the coat-tails of her dead husband to glory as an MP? Only the Toronto Star can pull that kind of leap of logic off.
But as for Rivet, the interviewee for the Star’s piece, good luck with finding more support for justice reform from the NDP or the Liberals.
Hello, Yes, I am an avid transit , bus and skytrain person, It really bothers me to see the SMOKING every way we walk…. I thought the smoking by-law had gone thru, of smokers should be 20 feet or more from and entrance to a building. They are smoking at bus stops, on skytrain platform and on the walking area getting to skytrain. Why has that by- law not being ENFORCED??? When I ask Skytrain personnel what has happened to this by-law, they just shrug their shoulders… some have said what can we do. I have even reported instances of ladies coming out of the Passport office at Gateway, smoking as they go thru the doors to the outside.. Why are they allowed to do that. NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT THIS…. Many people on buses have commented that NOTHING Is being done.. UNHEALTHY . If they want to KILL themselves why should they be allowed to take us INNOCENT people with them. Just because we are smarter, why should we SUFFER their habit>>>> Hope something will get done. This is DISGUSTING… When we say no to a child , we expect them to listen and OBEY…. Thanx…..