Editor, The News:
Re: Next NDP candidate won’t be a white man (The News, Aug. 5).
The NDP’s policy for selecting a new candidate to replace Michael Sather in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows riding is pathetic. It is blatantly discriminatory.
I would have to ask whichever non-white man who runs because this is NDP policy: were you chosen because you are female, a member of an ethnic group, gay, bisexual, lesbian or transgendered or because you were the most competent to represent this riding?
Barry Bentley
Maple Ridge