To the editor:
RE: “Kudos & Kvetches,” Sept. 17.
I take exception to the remarks in the Courier with regard to COPE and mayoral candidate Meena Wong.
Obviously the Courier’s editor knows who is running for COPE, so why would you be so rude and discourteous as to pretend otherwise? Further, your statement that COPE is a party inching closer to irrelevance is incredibly insulting to COPE members, COPE supporters, COPE voters. In the last civic election, COPE candidates Ellen Woodsworth and Tim Louis each drew in excess of 40,000 votes. NDP stalwarts Mel Lehan and David Eby are
COPE members and many of COPE’s candidates are NDP.
As COPE is the one party that — for nearly half a century — has steadfastly spoken for the poor, the homeless, the average working person, to do COPE such disservice as to feign knowing who the mayoral candidate is, and to dismiss the party based on zero thoughtful analysis of COPE’s policies or platform is more than disappointing, and an insult to those people COPE represents.
Timothy Kevin O’Keeffe,
Vancouver
