Dear Editor:
While the rest of the world enviously points at Canada and how Prime Minister Stephen Harper managed to navigate the ship of state through the most recent recession, a problem most of them have not yet come to grips with, our MP, Kennedy Stewart calls it, "reckless mismanagement."
He then points at his leader and his accomplishments in the Quebec environmental portfolio and wants us to believe that, as a result, people in Quebec are now better off.
Yeah, right! Do they have less unemployment? Do they pay fewer taxes? Are they living within their means? How enthusiastically did they shut down asbestos mines on his watch?
I get it - they are better off because of Thomas Mulcair's legacy and our $7 billion in equalization funds. Even with that, Quebec taxes are highest in the land, they have borrowed more from their grandchildren than any other province, and their air is no cleaner than what you would breathe in Fort Mac.
When Mr. Stewart claims, "Tom (Mulcair) believes Canada can emerge as a new kind of leader on the world stage ." it reminds me of what U.S. President Barack Obama said six years ago, when he was a candidate, "The USA is the best country in the world! Now, please help me change it!"
His accomplishments are not quite as pronounced as the Spaniards, who should have remembered Sancho Panza's words when Don Quixote started messing with windmills. Spain's youth unemployment is now 55 per cent, and Mr. Mulcair wants to lead Canada in a similar race to the bottom!
I used to get upset reading the drivel "honest" Svend Robinson and the great Bill Siksay sent us. What is now coming in the mail, compliments of Kennedy Stewart, is just laughable. Even though we seem to live in some kind of bubble in Burnaby-Douglas, provincewide there are, luckily, enough sane people who understand that with socialism, sooner or later you run out of other people's money. They then vote their own values. Hopefully they'll stick to it.
Ziggy Eckardt, Burnaby
