BC Green candidate in Kelowna Centre wants political reform
Bryce Tippe is the Kelowna Centre candidate for the BC Green Party and says he would push for more accountability in the legislative assembly if elected.“I want to reform the system to make it so that politicians have to be more accountable to their constituents and representatives as well,” he said.Tippe said introducing new ways to hold politicians accountable is difficult to put in place since there is no incentive for people in power to give some of that power away.“I would like to push for a code of ethics to be instituted into the legislature and an empowered ethics commission that would basically make it so that elected officials have to abide by the code of ethics. And that would include things like lying to people, over-promising, conflicts of interest and cover ups,” Tippe said. “Why would they change it? Because that's what let them get into power in the first place.”Tippe said he’s running because he wants to change how people view the government.“I just really wanted to be able to get into the race…
10 Oct 00:30 · iNFOnews.ca