Karen Wang makes tearful appeal to public: `I don´t deserve to be labelled as a racist´
(The Star Books)

VANCOUVER—The federal Liberal party is shutting the door on its former candidate in the Burnaby South byelection after she expressed second thoughts about resigning and claimed a controversial campaign post to a Chinese social-media site was widely misinterpreted. Karen Wang, who until Wednesday was the Liberal candidate running against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the highly anticipated byelection, resigned over comments she made on WeChat about Singh’s race. Later, she asked the prime minister to let her run after all.But the party has decided against letting Wang run under the Liberal banner.“Recent online comments by Karen Wang are not aligned with the values of the Liberal Party of Canada. The Liberal Party has accepted her resignation as a candidate, and she will not represent the Liberal Party in the Burnaby South byelection,� wrote Braeden Caley, Liberal Party spokesperson, in an email Thursday. Caley did not respond to questions about whether the Liberals will run another candidate in the Burnaby South byelection.Wang, a daycare operator who was selected last month to run for the Liberals in one of the country’s most diverse ridings, urged voters on Saturday via the Chinese social-media network WeChat to vote for her, “the only ethnic Chinese candidate in the riding,� rather than her opponent Singh, “of Indian descent.�Read more: ‘It makes us look bad’: Burnaby’s Chinese-Canadian community reacts to Karen Wang’s resignation over WeChat postSnap resignation of Karen Wang gives Liberals just weeks to find new byelection rival for Jagmeet SinghLiberal candidate’s WeChat post draws criticism for singling out race of byelection opponent Jagmeet SinghShe apologized to Singh on Wednesday, after the Star published details of the WeChat post initially published in Chinese, and stepped down as the Liberal candidate in the riding. Elections Canada confirmed Wang formally withdrew fr ...