In a speech Wednesday, Mark resigned as Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA while comparing the legislature to 'a torture chamber.'
Posted: Feb. 22, 2023 5:11PMMelanie Mark wiped away tears as she announced she’d be stepping down from her role as MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant.
“The people deserve a museum and the work is being done, and I took seven months of being totally annihilated over something that was my job, it was my mandate from the premier to revitalize the museum. That institution, just like this institution, is colonial and needs to be improved. That is a fact,” said an emotional Mark.
Mark says it was unfair the criticism she received for the Royal BC Museum and that the province deserves a museum and she was simply doing what the premier wanted.Mark was elected MLA in 2016 and re-elected in 2017 and 2020, keeping her role as the first female First Nations member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
“In many ways, I have done what I came here to do, but it’s also a fact that institutions fundamentally resist change. They are allergic to do things differently, particularly colonial institutions like this legislative assembly and government at large,” she said.
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