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NDP Anne McGrath was once a member of the Communist Party

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?

In the 1984 Edmonton Journal article about her candidacy, McGrath said that Canada “needs to bring under public ownership the United States multinational branch plants, banks, natural resource companies, auto and steel industries. By taking public control of our economy we can ensure the kind of investment that will create jobs for young Canadians.”

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.

Is it any wonder conservatives are mystified by the double standard? If it is relevant what UCP candidates think about abortion and gay rights, shouldn’t it be equally relevant that McGrath was a Communist, or that Rod Loyola praises Hugo Chavez, or that Rachel Notley sometimes wears a Che Guevera watch?

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