Vancouver's chief election officer has filed a court application seeking to declare that 15 candidates in upcoming municipal polls are not entitled to have their names on the ballot papers using Chinese, Persian or other non-Latin characters.
Rosemary Hagiwara filed the application to provincial court on Tuesday, naming respondents who include the Non-Partisan Association's mayoral candidate Fred Harding, incumbent NPA councillor Melissa De Genova, and veteran Vision Vancouver school board trustee Allan Wong.
He said he has had a Chinese name for many years because half of his family on his wife's side are Chinese. Hagiwara's affidavit said that when Harding initially submitted his nomination on Sept. 6, he did not include Chinese characters in his usual name, but three days later he revised his nomination to add them.Harding said that although the NPA had access to lawyers, none could respond to the matter by Thursday morning.
But the party also accused other candidates of using"cultural appropriation" by adopting Chinese names by which they are not commonly known, to seek an unfair advantage at the polls.
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