Dear Editor:
This letter was written in response to the Oct. 28 column written by editor Keith Lacey, which expressed the most disrespectful opinions of our former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
I hope you realize you are trashing an intelligent man whose passion for good government kept Canada safe through one of the biggest financial downturns in world history, and guided Canada along the steady path of growth, and employment.
Many other Canadians and I know that Stephen Harper loves this country and believe that history will prove him to be the best Prime Minister Canada has ever known.
Tough love hurts and Harper ruled with a much-needed strong hand.
This country was in disarray and someone had to guide it back into line by making every ministry financially accountable. That is what a good economist does.
However, a new generation of voters who have grown to expect instant gratification and who couldn’t accept the facts, opted to be mesmerized by the bed of roses that the Liberals presented.
I would like to bring your readers back to one of the promises on the Liberal platform when they came into power the last time.
After the Red Tories did their best to almost bankrupt Canada and introduced the most hated tax we have ever known – the GST.
The Liberals vowed it would be a priority on their agenda to rescind the tax. But how many remember that that didn’t happen?
And when we asked Jean Chretien and his sidekick Sheila Copps why that GST wasn’t rescinded as promised, Copps looked Canadians right in the eye and said, “I guess I lied” and resigned, only to run again and win in a by-election.
What an awful message for a government to send to young Canadians. It’s OK for Liberals to lie during an election campaign, so it must be okay for all Canadians to distort the truth whenever they like.
My message to the reader is “beware of what you wish for.”
We should all be prepared to hold the Liberals feet to the fire relating to their many promises or possibly find out for yourselves again that the Liberals could well have distorted the truth once again and we all will have to live with the consequences if they did.
K. Cline
Osoyoos, B.C.
