To the editor:
Re: "Flaherty taps deep well of stupid," May 18.
Finally, someone not afraid to speak about the stupidity of our elected leaders. But there is more to it than an expose of just Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty. Matthew Claxton zoomed in on the basic weakness these so-called Conservatives-namely a noticeable lack of grey matter in the upper echelons. In other words, too many top jobs are held by dim-wits.
Consider: we have a minister who makes a $12 billion mistake in the cost of fighter-jets; the same man who goes fishing by helicopter at taxpayers expense. We have a minister who alters a document, and lies about it. We have a government promoting the idea of tankers on the West Coast, and at the same time closes down B.C.'s regional oil spill response centre. This is logical?
We have a government, that, when bleak salmon runs are forecast, amends the Federal Fisheries Act to minimize habitat protection; a government with access to the best brains in the country yet insists on building prisons when the crime rate is falling; and a government that eliminates a vital data about our citizenry, the long form census to say nothing of the Long Gun Registry, which every police officer believed to be an asset.
In four years time, there are going to be a lot of pieces to pick up, thanks to these Regressive Conservatives.
Hugh Cotton, Vancouver
