Letter to the editor - from a Liberal!

Three strikes against Campbell

Gordon Campbell wants my vote for the third time, but I'm not sure he's earned it.

Strike 1 - He lifted the moratorium on salmon farm expansion, threatening B.C.'s wild salmon, ignoring the pulse of the people and the warnings from experts. Please Google Living Oceans Society.

Strike 2 - He gave away our future affordable electrical security by privatizing publicly built generators like Kemano.

Strike 3 - Shortly after promising to keep B.C. Rail public, he sold it to Canadian National Railway; now an off-shore company.

I could go on.

Mr. Campbell's Liberals like to remind us of the NDP's fast ferries fiasco.
That well intentioned but doomed investment was meant to train and provide future jobs in B.C. It was the wrong design - so order the right one from Germany?

At least the mistake had an accountable cost.

Wild salmon - priceless.

Electrical security - priceless.

B.C. Rail - under investigation.

Carbon tax - politically correct name to sneak in another grab.

Respectfully, all politicians enter the ring with a passion to improve the land and people they love. Unfortunately there are a lot of very talented lobbyists along the way. Power corrupts. It is like osmosis; some politicians get more arrogant the longer they are in power.

Personally, I am going to surprise my right wing peers and risk my vote on Carole James, hopefully the first female premier in B.C.'s history.

Do your homework people. Ask the hard questions and be sure to vote. It is the only minute of real time you get to have a say in our children's fishless, inflated future.

Jim Horner

Whistler

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