Bonnie Rai and her NDP family secrets

Current Position: NDP Candidate for Abbotsford South

Past Positions: Ran as a member of Jack Layton’s team during the last federal election.

Family Connections: Rai was a relative unknown until she ran for the federal NDP in the last election where she finished third.

Family Secrets: Rai likes to take shots at her opponents…until she is caught. Then she has problems taking responsibility for her own actions.

Jaynie Clark and her NDP family secrets

Current Position: NDP candidate in Burnaby-Lougheed.

Past Positions: One of four Directors at the BCGEU.

Family Connections: Another one of Carole James’ star union recruits, Clark works closely with her fellow BCGEU Director and NDP President Jeff Fox. She is part of the record number of union-connected candidates that Carole James has brought onto her team.

Family Secrets: Clark managed the campaign of federal NDP candidate Bill Siksay and is a staunch supporter of Jack Layton.

The company they keep

Did you know that NDP is a member of Socialist International? This is a world-wide alliance of socialists who believe, we assume, all the same ideals as Carole James and Jack Layton.

Yup, there sits the NDP, along with the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, the New Space Party of Uruguay and Panama's Democratic Revolutionary Party.

Oh look who else is in this illustrious company -- the Democratic Socialists of America. What kind of group is this? Well, on the DSA website, they say:

“Key to economic democracy is a democratic labor movement that plays a central role in the struggle for a democratic workplace, whether worker or privately owned. In workplaces that the employees do not own – traditional corporations, family businesses, government, and private nonprofits – only independent, democratically run unions can protect workers.”

Hmmm, that sounds so much like the BC NDP. Remember the 1990s when they tried to legislate union rules onto non-unionized workplaces? If their brothers and sisters at the DSA want to force everyone who works for a living to join a union, no doubt they’d also support Carole James’ NDP when they try to get rid of the secret ballot vote when workers are choosing whether or not to join a union (imagine the peer pressure from the socialists without the secret vote!).

Just goes to show that the company the NDP keeps really does speak to their desire to prop up unions and hurt small family-run businesses.

Carole James and the NDP. Wrong party, wrong leader, wrong time.