Heather Leung 梁漢華, Burnaby City councillor candidate

I will ban the sale of marijuana in Burnaby until I am confident that it poses no harm to the citizens in the city and children in schools. 另專文: 请支持BC省本那比市议员候选人Heather Leung(梁汉华)

Current occupation: Occupational Therapist

Tell us about yourself

“Love your neighbour” is my motto.  My family has been living in Burnaby for 15 years. My activities are community focused. I’m active in my Church, attend community events and always try to take an in-depth interest in community matters. The drug overdoses epidemic and all the related tragedies are my top area of advocacy. This cannot be reduced to a death count, people are ending up in permanent care and whole families are suffering.

What are the top three issues in Burnaby right now and what would you do to fix them? 

  1. Traffic. Details add up, tasks must be finished. For example, advance left turn lanes are great but left turns need to be curtailed on the streets immediately following. Take Kingsway and Imperial for example. Details matter, I pay attention to details.
  2. Affordable housing has become a crisis. It cannot be eliminated but there are strategies which can alleviate the hardships. A ‘too little too late’ reaction approach doesn’t work’. I’ll work endlessly to attack this crisis proactively and from all sides.
  3. Marijuana. B.C.’s solicitor general warns that Canadians who work or invest in the legal cannabis market could face a lifetime ban from entering the United States. People cannot suffer negative consequences from doing their job. I will resist moving ahead until this matter becomes clear.

If you have run for office before, what have you learned? If you have not, why are you running now?

I have run before and each time have come closer to being elected. I’ve learned that when people do not feel that their voice counts, they often don’t bother voting. Having an abysmal voting rate is a travesty, we have over 100,000 eligible voters who didn’t vote and decisions are being made for them, without their participation. I can see the appeal of using a PR electoral system.

What is one achievement and one failure of Burnaby council in the last four years? 

Taking the advice from an opposition member, a rarity in Burnaby, budgeting for future needs has produced a great financial success. This blessing also becomes a curse when it a significant deficit is created on all the important non-financial factors.

What would make you a good councillor/mayor? (50 words max)

In the community and at work, I interact with diverse groups of people, diverse age groups and many different ethnicities. Working with a very wide range of people and being a minority woman myself, I feel that I can bring new and fresh perspectives to the table.

What movie is most relevant to your life and why? (50 words)

127 Hours (2010). How does one decide between their hand or their life? I was inspired by the main character’s ability to make a very difficult but necessary decision and the sub-theme of missing something very dear only after it’s gone.

姓名:梁漢華Heather Leung

目前的職業:職業治療師

向我們介紹你自己。 (100字)
“愛你的鄰居”是我的座右銘。15年來我的家人一直住在本拿比。我的活動以社區為重點。我積極參與我的教會,參加社區活動,並總是試圖深入關注社區事務。現在流行的吸毒過量,這所有相關的悲劇都是我倡導的首要關注的領域。這雖不能減少死亡人數,但這些人最終需要得到終身照顧,整個家庭都在受苦。

現在Burnaby的三大問題是什麼?你會採取什麼措施來解決這些問題?

1.交通。許多細節要注意,工程必須完成。例如,前進左轉彎道很好但是左轉彎需要在緊接著的街道上縮減。以Kingsway和Imperial為例。細節很重要,我注重細節。

經濟適用房已經成為一場危機。它無法消除,但有一些策略可以減輕困難。 “太晚太晚後悔藥”的反應方法不起作用。我會竭盡全力地積極地從各方面來應對這場危機。

3.大麻。 B.C.的律師警告說,在合法的大麻市場工作或投資的加拿大人可能面臨終身禁止進入美國的禁令。人們不能因工作而遭受負面後果。在這件事情變得清晰之前,我會反抗繼續前進。

如果你以前競選過公職,你學到了什麼?如果你還沒有,你為什麼現在參選?

我以前參選過,每次都接近當選。我了解到,當人們認為他們的聲音長期不被重視時,他們通常不會費力去投票。糟糕的投票率是一種諷刺,我們有超過10萬名沒有投票的合格選民,並且在沒有他們參與的情況下為他們做出決定。我可以看到使用公關選舉制度的吸引力。

在過去四年中,本拿比市議會的一項成就和一次失敗是什麼? (100字)
接納反對派成員的建議,本拿比很少見,為未來的需求做出預算,才能取得了巨大的財務成功。當所有重要的非財務因素產生重大赤字時,這種祝福也會成為一種詛咒。

什麼會讓你成為一名優秀的議員?

在社區和工作中,我與不同的人群,不同的年齡組和許多不同的種族進行互動。我和很多人一起工作,自己也是一個少數民族女性,我覺得我可以帶來新的和新鮮的觀點。

什麼電影與你的生活最相關,為什麼?

127小時(2010年)。通過一個人的手與生命如何做選擇。我的靈感來自於主角能夠做出一個非常困難但不得不的決定的能力。以及一些東西在失去之後者的珍惜的子主題。