We are Pinoys!

Mable Elmore has attained a milestone that no other Pinay has done in Canada’s very competitive political arena.

Ms. Elmore is the very first Filipina to be elected to the British Columbia legislative assembly. A New Democrat, she will represent the Vancouver-Kensington constituency.

Mable is a bus driver with Coast Mountain Bus Company and an activist with the Canadian Auto Workers Local 111, as well as being active in the Vancouver Filipino community.

In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, she said “there was a lot of excitement in the Filipino community and a lot of volunteers because they have not had a representative in the provincial government.”

“One of my key volunteers told me that for the first time she feels like she is in Canada, that she is Canadian and is part of the process even though she has been living here for 25 years and has volunteered in other elections.”

Elmore says that even as a first-time MLA and with the hopes and dreams of the Filipino community on her shoulders, she doesn’t feel pressured only honoured and privileged to have won.

One Canadian blogger had a chance to listen to Mable during one of her many sorties and said this “I have had the opportunity to hear her (Elmore) speak on many occasions, and am very impressed with her passion. She is intelligent, articulate, and active, and will make an excellent MLA.

 

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