Burnaby mayor laments lack of female contenders for B.C. NDP leadership

by Carlito Pablo on January 12th, 2011 at 3:09 PM

Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan is disappointed that no women have stepped forward or are even rumoured to be candidates for the leadership of the provincial NDP.

“I think one wants to have a broad spectrum of the party reflected in the debates, and it’s always important to have a woman’s perspective on the leadership issues,” Corrigan told the Straight by phone. “We’ve just come from having a woman as a leader of the party for a number of years, and she did a very good job and tended to lead in a different style.”

Corrigan declined to identify any female New Democrats who he thinks could be a good replacement for outgoing leader Carole James.

The three-term mayor added that having a female candidate “may or may not happen, and if it doesn’t, I don’t think that it’s disastrous”.

“But I’m still hopeful that there will be at least one woman who decides she wants to run for the leadership,” he said.

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@DC

Jan 12, 2011 at 5:07pm

Maybe they are talking on their cell phones.

Neil Edmondson

Jan 12, 2011 at 7:11pm

@DC: lol. But note how cell phone usage while driving causes more accidents than drinking and driving and according to CAA is #1 concern of drivers, but isn't criminalized like d&d is.

It's a gender thing, 83% of d&d convictions are male vs. 4.2 billion percent of cell phone use while driving is female. And people wonder why men are incarcerated at rate 26x that of women in this country. And they STILL complain about sexism.