Burnaby byelection ignites debate about identity issues in politics

Inside a sunlit co-operative housing complex in Burnaby, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh knocked on doors of residents whose first languages included Croatian, Filipino and Spanish.
Often, to their surprise, Singh greeted them or said goodbye in their mother tongue.
The leader is staking his political future on a byelection in Burnaby South, an extremely diverse riding where nearly 55 per cent of residents were born outside Canada. But recent missteps by his former Liberal opponent, Karen Wang,