Calgary-East MLA feels ‘Very disappointed’ at removal from NDP

Calgary-East MLA Robyn Luff has said she will not join another political party after she was kicked out of the NDP caucus for protesting “a culture of fear and discrimination.” Luff went public with her protest on Monday after she did not sit in the legislature. She was expelled from the party hours later. Later she issued a statement that included, “ I am very disappointed in the decision of the NDP to remove me from Caucus.” She added, “ Since I have come out publicly, I have had staff members, party members, and caucus members tell me, all confidentially, that they have felt this too, but are too scared to come forward, and I will not breach their trust in me. The greatest blow of all is to be told my fellow NDP colleagues have voted me out, and that they are all complicit, every one of them.”
To explain her displeasure with the party, the now independent MLA complained about a number of issues she was not allowed to speak about publicly. Luff cited the Mobile Home Sites Tenancies Act and Early Learning Screening. “Every time I bring the Mobile Home Sites Tenancies Act up I am told it’s not on the to do list and that I can’t ask questions about it in the Question Period.”