This is in reply to the editorial in your Jan. 15 paper where you take Kevin O’Leary to task for his criticism of Notley and the Alberta NDP government.
You call it “absurd nonsense”. What is really absurd nonsense is that you don’t seem to understand why O’Leary would do this. The CBC reported that O’Leary explained why he did this. He said, “I’m a Canadian investor and I’m incredibly frustrated watching our No. 1 industry collapse like this at the hand of someone who I believe is not qualified to manage in a period of crisis.”
He goes on to cite NDP actions like raising the corporate taxes two per cent and instituting a carbon tax which has already taken $3 billion out of the industry and the Alberta economy.
This all done in light of the fact that the NDP have not offered any plan to help the thousands of workers who have lost their jobs, good union jobs, and who are having foreclosures on their homes.
Unfortunately these are not the only problems created by the Alberta NDP government. They created a huge backlash to a farm bill, which was good in intent but without consultation would have further destroyed the family farm.
Now they have just announced through their Ministry of Education that they are forcing measures on children and parents in schools that will further the gender identity crisis allowing students to choose their own genders, use whatever washroom and change room they want and forcing all their school teams to have both girls and boys on them.
This kind of social engineering is destroying the foundations of our society. And millions of Canadians do not agree with this kind of state intervention.
In some ways, I am not too surprised at this editorial. Once again, I think it clearly shows your political bias. I think we would be hard pressed to find an editorial where you took someone to task like this who was on the left wing of the political spectrum.
You certainly were absent in defending Stephen Harper and the Conservative government in the last 10 years. However, I am an optimist and just maybe you will take Trudeau to task once and awhile.
Oh and in conclusion, I think we are in for some rough economic times in the next few years.
Canadians will probably be wishing they had Harper back to guide them through it like he did in the 2008 crisis.
Time will tell, whether Trudeau, like his Alberta counterpart, is really up for the job!
Reed Elley
Chemainus
