Letters Dec. 22: Assess election candidates; Fossil fuels |
OneBC (a party of two) is finally no longer recognized by the Speaker in the Legislature as an official party.
The two MLAs, Dallas Brodie and Tara Armstrong, break-aways from the B.C. Conservatives, created their own prejudice and racially-driven party, calling it OneBC. From the start, that party had failure written in its DNA.
During their short tenure, the best the two could produce was to disparage Indigenous MLAs in the Legislature, as well as Canada’s program of reconciliation.
Brodie attempted to introduce a bill repealing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, while Armstrong wanted a statutory holiday honouring the Freedom Convoy (which, by the wa,y cost the taxpayer and businesses millions of dollars in costs and lost revenue).
Both bills were quickly dispatched to the garbage bin.
How do these people make it into the Legislature as MLAs? This is a waste of taxpayer money, tying up the Legislature when there are so many serious pressing issues facing B.C. and Canada.
As voters, we need to better vet the candidates running for office – be it local, provincial, or national.
And more importantly, whoever is chosen to head the Conservative Party needs to assess the candidates representing their party long before they make it to the ballot.
Alla Marinow
Mill Bay
Re: “Better ways to spend $250 billion,” letter, Dec. 13.
The letter’s expression of naivety in the face of global realities is truly remarkable.
I’m sure the Chinese, Russians and the Americans would all just love it if we decided to spend that money on unicorns and rainbows.
The world is a dangerous place, and it would be criminally irresponsible for our government to fail to respond to these threats.
Yes, it........