An open letter to Mayor Derek Corrigan:
Even though I am 100 per cent in favour of the Trans Mountain pipeline, I strongly encourage you to fight it all the way. The hypocrisy of Premier Rachel Notley knows no bounds.
She talks about creating jobs, but she is personally killing about 75 per cent or more of the coal jobs that would be replaced with the pipeline construction and oil jobs. So there is zero economic benefit to her madness in being phony on camera and attacking you personally.
Yes, the late premier Jim Prentice and his Tory cabinet signed the cabinet order-in-council to kill the jobs by shutting the mines. And, yes, she is just carrying out that order. But she could have kept the mines open and therefore kept Alberta working families at work.
She is a raging socialistic nightmare.
Rory J. Koopmans, Edmonton
