Bowinn Ma Quotes

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Bowinn Ma, MLA, (born July 25, 1985) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly in the 2017 provincial election. Ma then stood for re-election in the 2020 British Columbia general election, again for the British Columbia New Democratic Party in the riding of North Vancouver-Lonsdale.

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No one believes they’re the bad guy in a discussion or a debate. Patience and understanding can go a long way to connecting with people, even when you disagree.

Votes are not owned, they're earned. And I will continue to work hard every single day for as long as I have the honour of serving North Vancouver-Lonsdale to deserve their support.

Do not despair, my dear friends; instead, let us redouble our commitment to life beyond the pandemic in the actions we must take today.

Don’t be afraid to listen and allow new information to change your mind and your decisions.

I’d like to talk very specifically today about the issue of urban congestion, as I recognize that rural and remote communities face and experience transportation challenges very differently.

A government serves people, and when a government delivers services, they deliver them to real people — people who live, who laugh, who cry, who suffer, who yell out in pain, who love and are loved.

When things get difficult, it’s important to remember why you’re doing the work that you do. I always think of the people I came to serve.

Right now, the region is more interested in looking at options for rapid transit than they are for more lanes on those bridges, especially given that our local road networks can't quite handle more volume of traffic. People on the North Shore want choice.

Young women deserve a province that encourages them to take on leadership roles without fear of sexism. If we want more young women, and more people of colour to enter politics, we must commit to creating environments that respect that.

British Columbia has experienced an extreme weather event and we are seeing the impacts of the climate emergency in real-time. Although the atmospheric river has now passed, floods and mudslides continue to impact safe travel throughout the province.

Campaigns are normally very, very social. Politics is absolutely a team sport. And doing all of these campaign activities from separate homes and not being able to gather … it’s far more challenging to feed off each other's energy, even on the Zoom call.

Let me be clear as well that improvements of public transit and rapid transit do help drivers as well, because if we can provide people with options for moving around, then even though not everybody can leave their car at home every single day and take the bus, if we can give people the options to take the bus, then that actually leaves more room on the roads for drivers.

I mean what I say and I try to say what I mean.

Daily Hive: MLA Bowinn Ma claps back at “fragile” BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson (2020)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bowinn Ma (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.