Editor: There seems to be a lot of hype now, not based on facts and reality, that Thomas Mulcair might have a chance at becoming Canada鈥檚 next prime minister. This would be the same scenario as taking back a former spouse from a previous divorce to recreate the nightmare.
This would be a exact repeat of the old days of previous prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien, and Paul Martin.
Those were the days when the country of Canada ended at the border of Ontario and Manitoba. Those three prime ministers ignored the western provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and B.C. Federal funding for infrastructure projects was non-existent.
The problem with this was that the above three prime ministers all lived in eastern Canada, but enjoyed collecting our taxes.
A change of government brought in a prime minister, Conservative Stephen Harper, who was from Alberta. The four western provinces were once again recognized as being a part of Canada. In B.C. alone, Harper gave federal funding $365 million for the South Fraser Perimeter road, $33 million for Highway 97 from Winfield to Oyama, and $17 million to the Evergreen line, now under construction, just to name a few examples.That is the result of electing a prime minister who lives in the west.
Electing Mulcair would once again mean the country of Canada ends at the border of Ontario and Manitoba. With Mulcair as prime minister, it would finish the talk of Quebec ever separating from Canada. Mulcair would say talking about separatism is a crazy idea.
Presently, Mulcair is against the pipeline from Alberta to B.C., but still wants a pipeline to go from Alberta to Montreal, Quebec, where oil then can go by tanker from Montreal via the St. Lawrence River to the open seas of the Atlantic Ocean. A oil spill is nothing in comparison to royalities.
This way, Mulcair could collect on royalities for the province of Quebec. There are suckers born every day. Once a sucker, always a sucker.
Mulcair falls into this category. He fails to recognize that the NDP recently were elected to run the Alberta provincial government only due to vote splitting. Only 25 NDP seats were won on the NDP name alone, and the balance were a result of vote splitting by the Conservatives and the Wild Rose.
Mulcair fails to realize that in the October, 2015 federal election, there is no Wild Rose party, and these votes will go to the Conservatives. The latest polling shows the Conservatives with 54 per cent of the federal vote in Alberta. Mulcair proves to us in his photo-ops that he does not do any research before making comments on a topic.
Voters who vote for the federal NDP listen to the song by Rickey Nelson, 鈥淔ools rush in.鈥� Voters who vote for the federal Conservatives listen to the song by Andy Gibb, 鈥淒on鈥檛 throw it all away.鈥�
In summary, a federal Conservative government would keep infrastructure funding alive in the four western provinces, but it would once again be laid to rest with a NDP federal government.
Joe Sawchuk,
Duncan
