You know you've made it to the big time when national press are asking your party leader questions about your value as a candidate. You know you are in deep trouble when the national press are asking your leader if you should be dumped.

Both happened simultaneously today for Vancouver South candidate Wai Young. A journalist used up one of Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's five question limit to ask:

Has your candidate Wai Young in Vancouver South not become a burden for your campaign and is it not time to get rid of her? Intrepid Reporter

The question came hot on the heels of news reports that Wai Young's own siblings won't vote for her due to a family feud over their father's estate.

The past week has been unkind to Ms. Young as her campaign, and more importantly her boss, have also been dogged by questions about her campaign's relationship with controversial local figure Ripudaman Singh Malik.

Why are MPs so supine? You might as well ask why cows are so passive. They are bred that way. Stephen Harper

Perhaps Ms. Young might want to reconsider why she wants to go to Ottawa. If she is so fortunate to survive public scrutiny of her candidacy, she may not find her time in Ottawa very rewarding now that her campaign has embarrassed Stephen Harper and taken away from his majority, majority, give us a majority message multiple times.