Dear Editor:
As an Alberta citizen I am very insulted by guest columnist Doug Firby’s assumption (“PC’s Morton has best chance vs Smith”) that we are naïve enough to believe that changing one figurehead for another will erase all the wrong doings and striping of rights that the Progressive Conservative government has done to their employers, the citizens of Alberta.
I am shocked by the suggestion that we would be better off with a silver-tongued, smooth-talking Ted Morton than a so-called honest Ed Stelmach. The citizens of Alberta deserve a champion similar to Newfoundland’s’ former premier, Danny Williams, who fought for his citizens’ interests in negotiations with industry.
In Alberta, the PC government has passed numerous bills protecting industry from citizens and landowners who might have exercised their rights to protect themselves and their property. These rights were developed and fought over the past 100 years but in a period of two or three years they were either over-ridden or extinguished by the PC government.
In a time when our environment is under attack and our medical system is failing its citizens, it is suggested by Firby that the government should move even further to the right. This suggestion is appalling to me. The whole article appears to be an ad for Ted Morton and the PCs.
The only good thing I found in the article was recognition that there are four other parties to vote for.
Dieter Lohmann
RR2, Bluffton