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Who’s she? She’s the NDP candidate in Calgary-Varsity, though you’d never know it from her literature. It’s emblazoned with the colours of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, blue with a slight tinge of orange. She’s endorsed by the Firefighters of Alberta, a group you might associate with the conservatives because of Bill Smith, a former firefighter who ran for Calgary mayor in 2017.

But McGrath is actually running for the NDP. And in 1984 she ran for the Communist Party of Canada as a 26-year-old education student at the University of Alberta.

Now you might say what someone believed more than 30 years ago has no bearing on who they are today. But after the vicious attack on Jason Kenney’s student activism in San Francisco, the NDP can’t say that now, can they?

Just in case you’ve forgotten about the incompetence and evil of Communist ideology, Quillette has recently published a helpful reminder of the estimated 70 million deaths in Mao’s China and the 10 million Ukrainian deaths in Stalin’s Soviet Union through genocidal state-sponsored starvation, not to mention the “hidden mass graves, the illegal human experiments, the secret surveillance systems, the assassinations … erasing your opponents by murdering them and then wiping all traces of their existence from the history books.”

If McGrath ran for the Fascist Party in 1984 she would, quite rightly, never be a candidate fit for public office again. The fact that she ran for the Communist party, an ideology that killed 10 times more people, should make her 10 times more unfit to run for public office.

But slap a bit of blue paint on campaign materials with the endorsement of a union full of brawny, well-respected professional firefighters, and all youthful transgressions are to be forgiven.

Also...

It turns out the unions can spend even more now. Under the old rules, campaign finance laws limited union and corporate political donations to $30,000. But there’s no limit on union and corporate donations for third-party advertising. The Firefighters of Alberta have so far spent $61,712. The Alberta Teachers’ Association has spent $270,000. The Alberta Federation of Labour has cobbled together nearly $60,000 from its subsidiaries.

So Im sure there will be outrage that a communist is an NDP candidate and must be removed....right?

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...cp-the-squeeze