‘So much for moderation

An Open Letter To:

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

Columbia. The streamlining of regula-

Premier Gordon Campbell, Province of British Columbia

Dear Mr. Premier:

In our province, the citizens are noted for their polar- ized politics. You and your government are doing more to strengthen those adversarial differences than building bridges and trying to find consensus and dialogue.

A government in power has a responsibility to try and

bridge political differences while carrying out its politi- cal agenda. ~ The British Columbia public understands when a new political party takes control of the provincial government change is expected. That is how our democratic govern- ing process with all of its frailties functions.

What you do not understand or seem to care about is that British Columbians expect careful, well researched change that is carried out in a balanced way. | You were not elected to go as far with your changes as you are taking the province.

So much for the moderation you trumpeted would guide government policies’ that are now being imple- mented. And where is the respect for 40 per cent of the eligible voters who did not vote for your party.

I consider myself a social democrat, with a slight lean to the left, a person who is probably more comfort- able as a true liberal. My understanding is that the philo- sophy (and ] thought) the mandate of the Liberal party was to atlempt to balance divergent points of view.

I can understand and support a modest tax cut and a carefully thought out and planned streamlining of regula- tions, that sends our a message that business and free enterprise has a very important role to play in British

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tions could have a very ne- gative impact upon many facets of our lives, For that reason the public needs to be given the opportunity to provide input to that change. The same message should be sent out to the public service and crown corporations that also play a critical role in our economic and social well being in this great province.

1] am quite convinced that you and your government believes that the fox can indeed do an effective job of looking after the hen house.

With all the very many negative environmental wam- ing signals that we see, learn about and even experience on a daily basis, you have no business abandoning the environment.

Super Natural British Columbia, the relatively clean environment that we still enjoy and the fish and wildlife of B.C. makes our province a special place and contri- butes to the tourism industry which is our second largest economic generator. You and your government can not take for granted that these natural attributes and the benefits that they provide will remain if you continue along this wrongly chosen path that you are now taking.

The NDP government who made some bad choices and poor decisions were not as radical in their thinking as your party. They did not make policies that sent this province down a road that could not be reversed ar al- tered.

Poor economic decisions can be over time amended and corrected, but bad resource and environmental deci- sions can have a huge and profound long term impact that may not be correctable, they did not make many of those kind of bad choices.

Jim Culp, Terrace, B.C.

MLA must show leadership

Dear Sir:

I met with Skeena Lib- erat MLA Roger Harris a few weeks ago to discuss the impact of the Liberals’ cuts to Terrace and how this would impact child protection services in the north-west.

At that time, he told me that he was expecting the Liberal party to move more towards MLA’s re- -presenting their home community rather than fol- lowing the party line,

He gave his position on Mercer as an example of ‘his willingness to take a position in opposition to ‘his own party, > In reading last week's

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paper, our MLA is rationa- lizing draconian cutbacks to his home community — representing Victoria to Terrace rather than the other way around.

We do not chose our

Dear Sirr

elected leaders so that

I don’t know what happened to Gordon Campbell; he seemed like such a nice guy before the election. Must be some- thing in the water down there?

It doesn’t take many helicopter trips to fly injured people to Prince George to pay for a lot of hospital expenses. People don’t want to live in an area with no hos- pital. It used to be said that crime doesn’t pay. Now that’s a questionable statement.

stand up for us in Victoria. It is is time for Roger to step out of the partisan po- litical box and show us some leadership.

Simon Dadds, - Terrace, B.C.

we have another voice from the south telling us the way ithas to be, de- pendent on the ideological flavour of the day.

We elect our MLAs to

Perhaps it was the water

Jails are closing and minor crimes are being ignored.

Educated people are being laid off and all we hear are promises of some magical retraining course to obtain some mythical job that doesn’t exist.

If anyone is interested in recalling Pre- mier Campbell, I hope they will get an office set up to handle the letters or what- ever it takes to get the job done.

Lloyd Brinson, Nass Camp, B.C.

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