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Don’t be surprised if Liberals’ mistakes cost them election

Editor: Open letter to Donna Barnett, Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA:

Editor:

Open letter to Donna Barnett, Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA:

How can you support a political party and a leader that is making our province into a national joke?

The Liberals, led by Christy Clark, are taking the fourth richest province in Canada and making us look like a banana republic. We are rich with resources, yet during a time when commodity prices have been the highest ever seen, the government has been running a deficit.

Vancouver is a world-class city, recognized as one of the most expensive places to live, yet we have had the highest rate of childhood poverty for the 10 years since your party has taken power.

The BC Liberals are squandering our future. Our heath care is deteriorating as hospitals get more overcrowded. Our justice system is collapsing with criminals realizing that they will never face consequences for their crimes because they will be released due to overcrowded courtrooms.

With the draconian, anti-teacher Bill 22, the Liberals are destabilizing B.C. labour by ignoring basic rights of collective bargaining and the right to strike. This is against teachers — one of the most conformist groups of workers imaginable, who you have managed to belittle, humiliate, and enrage.

Is it any wonder that the number of people moving to B.C. is dropping? Is it any wonder that business is not reinvesting their record profits? How can we attract the best and the brightest to lead us into this new century when the Liberals’ incompetence can’t even introduce their beloved HST properly!

The one consistency the Liberals have demonstrated is unwavering support for the richest one per cent, at all costs. You gut your treasury by allowing them to not pay their fair share of taxes, you destroy public education and public health care in favour of private schools and private clinics that only the one per cent can afford, you increase MSP, ICBC costs, and other expenses, making it even harder for average citizens. Finance minister Kevin Falcon showed his contempt for the average taxpayer by endorsing the obscene income inequality that exists in our province. When the next election occurs, do not be surprised if you only get one per cent of the vote.

Andrew Riegl

Williams Lake