Editor:
Re: Qualtrough hasn’t failed in her duty to speak up for Delta, letter to the editor, April 25
Permit me, please, to comment on two points of interest that have appeared in the Optimist recently.
First, the comment from a reader regarding your recent column vis-a-vis Delta's MP and second, the federal election scheduled for October.
It appeared to me that your comment was more general in nature than set in stone with regard to any particular political point - currently in Canada, the political mood appears to be opposed to Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada.
Inasmuch as Delta's MP is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, she is painted by the same brush as is Trudeau. The attraction or dissatisfaction of one draws the other and together they combine into one and thus the dislike for Trudeau and the Liberals covers Delta's MP concurrently.
Moreover, while Delta as such does not hold a “position,” its population does in that it supports or rejects political points that influence Delta as a community. Additionally, what Delta's MP says or does in either or both caucus and cabinet is not privy to Delta's population; however, what emerges from either or both - with those from cabinet being primary - does with respect to overall governance and specifically toward Delta.
Interestingly, the day-to-day constituency work that is credited to the MP is more likely to have been done by staff with the MP being aware of such in a peripheral manner. I know this to be correct as I did that job for seven years and attended to all constituent concerns and the cabinet minister knew little if anything about what the issue was. He had no complaints and I suspect Delta's MP has no complaints about how constituency staff function and attend to local matters.
Despite what Canada's 13th prime minister had to say about polls and dogs, recent polls by established outfits reveal that the mood across the land is moving at great haste away from the “sunny ways” of Justin Trudeau and his starry-eyed 2015 campaign promises into something more substantial and that is that the electorate has seen the wizard behind the curtain and what they see is not what they like.
In a word, Trudeau and his minions - including Delta's MP - are on the skids and are compressing into a political entanglement that promises to become galvanized around falsehoods and fabrications.
It would appear the Liberal Party of Canada intends to follow that old saw about tossing enough at the wall, some of it is bound to stick. We see this with the current comments from Trudeau and his lame attempt to draw attention away from his failings and to shine the political light on his opponents.
Now, a count from west to east might be in order: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and PEI - almost 60 per cent, the majority - of Canada's population has seen the light and said no to more of Trudeau and his shenanigans and of his spending valuable taxpayers' money where none of it has done nor will do any good for those over-taxed taxpayers.
While those were provincial elections, those voters are the same voters who have serious concerns about Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada - political sentiments and support do not necessarily differ from provincial to federal general elections. It has been common in Canada that provincial/territorial voters elect a political party and thus government that is in stout opposition to the ruling federal government.
The upcoming federal general election will be decided on matters of fact and not innuendo or fabrication or out and out mistruths and based on the current mood of Canada from east to west, north to south, it is that the Justin Trudeau government must go and to use the term of old, "not to darken our doorway every again!"
Bob Orrick
