Stephen Hui Interviews Bill Siksay, NDP Candidate for Burnaby-Douglas
By Richard Eriksson on June 15, 2004 - 3:35am
Via Stephen Hui, who posts excerpts of the interviews and articles in Seven Oaks magazine on his weblog, comes an interview with Burnaby-Douglas candidate for MP Bill Siksay (I once overheard some kids liken the name to "sexy" but they pronounced it "sexsay"). The riding, Burnaby-Douglas, is held currently represented by Svend Robinson who is stepping down after admitting stealing a ring, and Siksay compares his community service to the other candidates:
I understand what it means to be an advocate for people in the community. I don’t think Bill Cunningham understands that. Clearly, as a high official in the Liberal party, he didn’t understand how to advocate for members of his own party who were seeking the nomination, and had filed proper nomination papers, and didn’t even get an answer on that.
In terms of the Conservatives, I’m really concerned about their platform, and I think that people in Burnaby-Douglas are concerned about the direction that they’re heading in. Their main plank is massive, billion-dollar tax cuts. People in B.C. know what happens when you do that. They’ve got the example of Gordon Campbell and the B.C. Liberals, who went down that road, and we’ve seen how it’s devastated so many important programs for people.Seven Oaks interview with Bill Siksay
He has words of praise for the Green Party, but says that the NDP have more experience in government and a stronger track record with the environment, and avoids the question of whether the Green Party should be in the National Leaders' Debates by saying that it's not up to the parties.
