Posts tagged as: Letters

Letter – Courageous New Westminister initiative..

Share Dear Mayor Robertson and Councillors: Last night I attend a historic public meeting in New Westminster council chambers on the City’s history of discrimination against the Chinese. Over 70 people attended and it was an eye-opener to see how civic politics is connected to provincial and federal politics. If you wish, I can post [...]

Letter: Redress meeting format needs reform

Share To New Westminster Mayor and Council, I commend you for what you are attempting to accomplish in regards to New Westminster’s Municipal Chinese Reconciliation; I only I hope that other municipalities would follow your lead. However, I left the meeting with my blood pressure elevated. After taking great pains to arrive by public transit [...]

[Letter] Roadmap to a balanced budget: Maximizing government efficiency

Share As outlined in Budget 2010: Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth, our Government has a clear three-point plan to return to a balanced budget. First, we will wind down as planned the temporary measures in the Economic Action Plan. These investments are protecting and creating jobs now. Second, we will take action to [...]

Letter: Vancouver Council needs to act on assault of Yaowei Wu

Share Dear Mayor Robertson and Council, I am disgusted and dismayed by the recent news regarding the assault of Mr. Yao Wei Wu . These officers acted as thugs, and this is a heinous abuse of power. Even if this was the alleged person they were looking for, officers do not have the right to [...]

Letter: Will GG continue the detainee investigation?

Share WILL THE GOVERNOR GENERAL CONTINUE THE DETAINEE INVESTIGATION? Will Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean and The Hon. Prime Minister Stephen Harper work with all concerned parties in the forming of an open and accountable Commission to investigate the Afghan detainee controversy? If they don’t it seems that democracy in Canada is not [...]

Letter: Upcoming choice – Coalition compromise or ideological intolerance

Share Dear editor, Doesn’t Stephen Harper get it? “If we do not get a majority, the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois will combine and they will form a government … If we do not win a majority, this country will have a Liberal government propped up by the socialists and the separatists,” Stephen [...]

Letter: No Need for another election

Share Dear Editor, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and his party seem to be bent on plunging Canada into another federal election. If this happens this will be the fourth election in five years and the second one within a year. We might beat even Italy on this one. At this time there is no need [...]

Letter: Goodbye CHEK, hello Fox News North

Share The Editor, I believe strongly that is time for the Canadian government to support, fund and ensure Canadian control of our airwaves and other means of creation or access to Canadian arts, culture and film. True Tories have always stood proudly for Canadian culture and our historical roots; the present government does not. It [...]

Letter: Hell bent of an election

Share Dear Editor, We are not having a summer election – that’s six weeks of bad television and partisan editorials on steroids that will not disturb our vacations. Yah! Of course there are still serious issues to discuss: the near fatal death of manufacturing in Canada, a nuclear-medical global crises, and growing personal economic tragedies. [...]

Letter: Raitt tape a glimpse into reality

Share Dear Editor, Lisa Riatt’s comments regarding the isotope crisis gives the “me” generation a new meaning. Riatt’s comments reflect her focus on the political capital she could get out of the issue. She had no concern about the patients who might have their lives threatened by the lack of isotopes and referred to things [...]

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