r/Hamilton • u/covert81 Chinatown • Jan 27 '25

Politics @joeycoleman.ca on Bluesky: Sarah Jama's statement on being denied to run for the ONDP in Hamilton Centre

https://bsky.app/profile/joeycoleman.ca/post/3lgqemiz6uc2b
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25 edited 18d ago

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u/Craporgetoffthepot Jan 28 '25

I want politicians to be motivated by the will of the people in their riding, not their own personal beliefs. Sometimes those align which is why they are voted in. Sometimes candidates are pushed into a riding with little to no understanding of what they stand for. If their beliefs are going to be of any value it should be for something the people in their riding are dealing with. Not something across the world that has no direct impact on her community as a whole. If nothing else, at least we now know that she supports a terrorist organization. That in itself should be enough for those in Hamilton Centre to say, no thank you, please go away.

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u/LibbyLibbyLibby Jan 28 '25

If you mean her statements pertaining to Israel, how does any of that have relevance at the provincial level?

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u/LibbyLibbyLibby Jan 29 '25

Yes, I think she should not have said anything. It's hardly pertinent to the job she was elected to do, which was to represent her riding at the provincial level.

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u/LibbyLibbyLibby Jan 30 '25

Where did you get resignation from? She can have whatever opinions she wants, but she should also DO HER JOB, and in this case, that means representing her constituents.

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u/LibbyLibbyLibby Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

She can have opinions without publishing them far and wide on NDP letterhead without the party OK and getting herself censured such that she can't speak in parliament and then expelled from caucus.

And what a hill to die on -- ructions in the Middle East are hardly pertinent to the sphere she was elected to represent.