Teacher hopes to oust two Liberal MLAs

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BURNABY (NEWS1130) – People unhappy with two Lower Mainland Liberal MLAs plan to have them removed with a recall campaign.

Organizers behind the drive believe the two haven’t done a lot for their communities.

Jennifer Heighton, a member of BC Citizens for Recall, explains why Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee is one of their targets.

“There is the Burnaby Hospital, there are seniors’ issues, there is the Kinder Morgan pipeline, there are poverty issues. Whenever anyone has gone to him and talked about these issues with him, the results haven’t been good. They haven’t been happy with his answers.”

Heighton isn’t a resident of Burnaby, but she teaches in the city.

“Because I am involved with the Burnaby community in the profession that I’m in, I feel he hasn’t represented those citizens well.”

The other MLA they want recalled is Marc Dalton, who represents Maple Ridge-Mission. Heighton says he needs to be removed because he is currently sitting as an independent while he waits to see if he will represent the Conservatives in the upcoming federal election.

NDP MLAs Mable Elmore and Jenny Kwan are also vying to be federal candidates, but Heighton says Dalton is being held to a different standard because he has been a member of the governing party and should have greater power to effect change.

Recall requires that 40 per cent of eligible voters in a riding sign a petition within a 60-day time frame to trigger a by-election.

Heighton hopes to have Elections BC approval to launch the campaign this spring.

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