The rantings of a former Councilor

For someone who’s no longer an elected official, Mr. Evans has an awful lot of grousing to do about how city council does its job. This may come as a shock to him, but Burnaby runs its elections in a democratic fashion, and in this case, the people (you know, those people YOU were supposed to represent) decided that they wanted a BCA mayor and BCA councilors. It‘s an amazing thought to be sure, allowing citizens to vote for who they want to, even if it doesn’t produce a governing system that Mr. Evans approves of, which would likely require him to be sitting as a member. Perhaps if he and his party spent more time presenting a positive set of ideas to the citizens of Burnaby instead of continually complaining about the election results, there would be members of his party on Council. But, they did not, and the voters decided not to have such people represent them at the municipal level. This should be a lesson to Mr. Evans and those like him, but I suspect that instead, he and others like him will simply continue to criticize a government duly elected by the people, the same people who rejected his style of politics and his lack of solutions to the problems at hand.