Clark conqueror addresses Kootenay East NDP

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Posted: October 7, 2013

New executive also selected

Past NDP candidate Norma Blissett (right) and former NDP MLA Anne Edwards welcome David Eby, newly elected MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, to the annual general meeting of the Kootenay East NDP in Cranbrook on Sunday. Eby spoke and answered questions about how he defeated Christy Clark in the May election and what he is doing as the NDP's Critic for Advanced Education. — Past NDP candidate Norma Blissett (right) and former NDP MLA Anne Edwards welcome David Eby, newly elected MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, to the annual general meeting of the Kootenay East NDP in Cranbrook on Sunday. Eby spoke and answered questions about how he defeated Christy Clark in the May election and what he is doing as the NDP’s Critic for Advanced Education.

David Eby, Advanced Education Critic for the BC NDP, told the Kootenay East New Democrats Sunday, Oct. 6, that the provincial government has lost track of what post-secondary education is all about.

He said B.C. residents are being forgotten as attention is focused on international students. The result, he said, is that B.C. residents are unable to fill skilled jobs, which are then taken by foreign workers.

While in Cranbrook, Eby also visited College of the Rockies on his tour of the post-secondary institutions in B.C. He was formerly an adjunct professor of law at UBC and executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association.

The Kootenay East NDP also chose a new executive Sunday. Troy Cook of Fernie is the president; Norma Blissett, Pam Catsirelis and Matt Cook of Cranbrook are the vice president, secretary and treasurer, respectively. Other executive members include Randal Macnair, Steve Kallies and Alex Hansen of Fernie; and Laura Wilson, Gary Werk, Chris Johns, Elizabeth Frost and Edna Werk of Cranbrook.

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