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Liberals are running on a fact-free agenda Editor: The first victim in political campaigns, as in wartime, is truth. Nothing illustrates this better than a recent ad by my MLA, John Yap and Today’s BC Liberals: “The Choice is clear. Strong Economy. Secure Tomorrow.” Sorry, Mr. Yap, today’s Liberals are no different from the Old Liberals under Gordon Campbell. Deception is not only your party’s modus operandi, it is in your name. Just because you claim you are liberal does not mean you are. You and the Liberal Party are literally wolves in sheep’s clothing; a coalition comprised of lots of right wing conservatives (aka Social Credit), with a few token liberals thrown in so they could sell their political souls to gain power. Unlike real liberals, they are the party of Big Business, the ones that rips up union contracts for teachers and hospital employees, inflict a carbon tax on schools and hospitals so that free enterprise can get tax credits, and fund $9 million tax funded parties like the Bollywood Awards to woo the ethnic vote. They are the ones who
immediately after the last election when the Liberal Party stated that imposing the HST was “not on the radar,” brought in the Hated Sales Tax. And they waited until the last minute before this election to ditch the HST. The Liberal Party has recently shown it’s bending of the truth by spending $15 million of taxpayers’ money towards very blatant political advertising about the success of the Jobs Creation Plan; in reality that program was a total failure. Basically they are running on a fact-free agenda, ignoring their record. And anyone familiar with their education policy where funding does not keep up with inflation resulting in teacher lay-offs and vital programs for youth being cut makes the lie of Christy Clark’s Family First mantra so blatant. Returning to my local MLA, Mr. Yap is well aware of the secretive backroom plan created in the premier’s office to use more tax money to seduce the ethnic voters (aka as bribing ethnic voters) to vote Liberal. When that unethical strategy came to light, Mr. Yap had to fall
on his sword for his responsibility. Unfortunately, he didn’t fall on the blade quite enough. He resigned his cabinet post because of his admitted breach of ethics. Funny, he doesn’t feel he has to resign his MLA position for the same lack of ethics. And now my MLA for Steveston has the audacity to advertise that by voting Liberal, we will secure a strong economy and a secure tomorrow. Despite that rhetoric, the B.C. Liberals recent budget is not a balanced budget. For the next few years, they will continue to run a deficit. The Fairy Tale goes like this: If the Liquefied Natural Gas Plants are built in the far future and if the hypothetical market overseas buys our LNG, and if there isn’t another downturn in the market like 2008 and if pigs could fly, then maybe, just maybe in about 10 years, we might be debt free. It’s like relying on winning the Lotto 6/49 instead of saving for your retirement. Just because you say it’s so, doesn’t mean it is necessarily so. Eric Hanson Richmond
There’s more to leadership than photo-ops Editor: Nina Graham (featured in John Yap's campaign flyer) took issue with my letter published in the April 24 Richmond Review, but I think the point was missed. All I wanted to express was that some apparently misleading propaganda was put in my mailbox and I wanted the electorate to know about it. Ms. Graham states that while in office, John Yap has stood up to protect Steveston Harbour's viability. That is great, but did he also stand up to address the worst rate of child poverty in Canada? Leadership in the community is not just attending events and handing out novelty-sized cheques
to worthy causes. Those are called photo-ops. True leadership would be standing up to counter the party line by saying “Hey, this is not the right thing to do.”This could have been applied to the HST and how it was introduced, the B.C. Rail scandal, the convention centre costs, the ethnic outreach scandal and the gutting of a successful program for providing independent review of pharmaceuticals to appease the drug companies. Ms. Graham states that Mr. Yap is a decent man with a good heart. That may be true, but perhaps he is just hanging out with the wrong crowd. Alex Herring Richmond
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