Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:

Throughout the current election campaign, (including  the Castlegar All Candidates forum), NDP candidate Atamanenko has railed against 'the Harper government's' lack of co-operation, their 'inability to compromise', and to simply 'get along with others

Yet he fails to acknowledge or explain how - if the Conservatives are really so bad at working with other parties - how is it then that they have managed to stay in power in a minority parliament for so long?

Ask anyone who has lived under a dictatorship and they will tell you of its ugly features: A Supreme Leader who rules with an iron fist; legislation pushed through by a rubber stamp legislative assembly with little or closured debate; government officials ordered into silence or fearful of speaking up; and a press denied the right to even ask questions, let alone get any answers.

That’s how a majority government under Stephen Harper would operate: it has already done much of that, even in minority status.

In the Facilities Report released by the school district this fall, three of the top-rated scenarios see Rossland Secondary School closing and MacLean Elementary becoming a K-7 school. This is based on the assumption that grades kindergarten to seven will fit in MacLean. When you take a closer look at the numbers, however, it becomes clear that this is not a viable option.

An open letter to the president and CEO of BC Hydro, president and CEO of FortisBC, president of Axor, chair and CEO of the BC Utilities Commission, the BC Minister of Energy, the BC Minister of Environment and Federal Minister of Environment, and all our respective MLAs and MPs in the hope that someone will step forward to make common sense prevail.

To the Editor,

In the absence of generators at the Duncan Dam in the West Kootenay, BC Hydro purchases power from FortisBC to serve its customers in the Lardeau Valley.