Kamloops candidate profiles: Communists Kerek, Klossner; Libertarian Bradshaw
KAMLOOPS — The Communist Party is the second oldest political party in Canada, founded in 1921 at a time when Lenin was in power and a year before the old Soviet Union was formed.
The candidates in Kamloops, Beat Klossner and Peter Kerek, want to reverse people’s perceptions of what the Communist party is.
Klossner is all about putting services back into the hands of government. The Communist candidate in Kamloops-South Thompson feels the province has become too privatized.
“I’ve seen over the last few decades that what we have here are governments that are middle-men and enablers of corporate interests,” said Klossner. “Everything is for sale, everything is for profit, and I can’t accept that.”