B.C. MLA the latest politician with mixed messaging for non-English media
British Columbia Liberal leader Kevin Falcon says he supports supervised drug injection sites, but when member of the legislature Teresa Wat spoke to the audience of a Mandarin news show last week, she had a different message.
“There is something very powerful about the situational context for delivering a message,” said David Black, a political communication associate professor at Royal Roads University. He said Phoenix TV’s viewership skews heavily toward people with mainland Chinese origins, and it was possible for politicians to forget their broader constituency in discussions with specific groups.
In Wat’s case, she said in a video sent by the BC Liberal caucus on Wednesday that she “used the wrong choice of words” to describe the party’s position on injection sites in the Phoenix interview, posted online on Feb. 9. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially resisted calls to fire McCallum but then dismissed the ambassador when he made more remarks about Meng’s case a few days later.
“I’m very comfortable she has not formed a new position or suggesting that we have a different position as a party.”
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