This column is an opinion by Gurpreet Kaur Bolina, a fifth-year sociology student at the University of Alberta who lives in Edmonton. For more information about CBC’s Alberta election 2023 opinion series, visit the My Priority home page.
I knock on a door, and a man opens it, smiling. I told him I was door-knocking for a municipal candidate in Edmonton’s city council elections. I asked him if he knew who he’d be voting for.
His smile fades. “Oh, we’re only PR, sorry.”
PR. Permanent resident, a status given to immigrants that allows them to live and work in Canada, receive social benefits
