Dear Editor:
I recently received a telephone call from an opinion polling company on the subject of the upcoming federal election.
Regarding my riding of Burnaby North-Seymour, the young female pollster asked if I supported “1) Mike Little of the Conservative party, 2) Terry Beech of the Liberal party, 3) Carol of the NDP, or 4) Lynne of the Green party.”
NDP candidate Carol Baird Ellan was the first-ever female provincial court chief judge, and Lynne Quarmby of the Green party is an award-winning science researcher and professor at SFU, but I guess as “girls” they don’t merit last names.
Not only am I astonished that this could happen in this day and age, but I also wonder how questioning in this manner might skew the poll.
Linda Bates
North Vancouver
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