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Fighting for the right to pee
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ON THE BUNNY TRAIL: Above, three-year-old Finn Walker
just can’t express enough love for the Easter Bunny during the Bonsor Seniors’ Centre’s annual Grandparent and Family Easter Egg Hunt, held on Saturday, April 15. Kids and their grandparents came together for an egg hunt, crafts, activities, treats and facepainting. At right, Cecilia Xu collects eggs during the egg hunt. See more photos at www.burnabynow.com.
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ELECTION 2017
Chen apologizes for ‘poor choice of words’ Burnaby NDP candidate said Indo-Canadians and other immigrants run because they want ‘the name’ Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
Burnaby-Lougheed’s NDP candidate is in the hot seat after the B.C. Liberals leaked old footage they said “denigrated the Indo-Canadian community.”
In the 2012 video released on Monday on the party’s website, Katrina Chen told a reporter Indo-Canadians don’t know much about politics and only run because they want the profile. “Unfortunately, some-
times you see immigrants running because they want the name.They actually don’t know the politics very well yet, and sometimes local parties support them because they need the immigrants’ vote, like from the Indo-Canadian community
for example,” Chen said in the video. The then-28-year-old, who had been working as a constituency assistant for NDP MP Peter Julian, was in Taiwan for a conference and participated in an interview encouraging new Ca-
nadians to be involved in the political process. When reached by the NOW, Chen apologized for her “poor choice of words” and said she was “very new and nervous” back then. “I think it’s important that people understand that
those comments don’t represent my views. I have a lot of respect for many, many of the South Asian families that I’ve worked with during the past 10 years.” The MLA hopeful added Continued on page 9
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