As members of the Ontario NDP’s Black caucus publicly criticize the party’s failure to protect an incumbent, MPP Kevin Yarde says he is weighing his future political options.
has jolted Queen’s Park, where the other major parties do not allow such challenges to sitting MPPs.
“There’s still other options that I’m looking at. I’m not going to rule out anything,” Yarde said, adding that could include a move to municipal or federal politics or even running as an Independent.took to Twitter over the weekend to express their concerns about last Thursday’s nomination contest.MPP Laura Mae Lindo .. “If we are a team, then we support and lift each other up. If we don’t, there’s a deep, deep, systemic and structural problem. Well, many, actually.”, “I am not retiring.
“We’ve done so much the last four years,” he said. “So, for the Black caucus to see a colleague lose in a contested nomination, there’s a lot of passion — obviously, not only among them, but also among the citizens in Brampton.”