The comments made by B. Cousins are wrong on so many levels, and anybody who believes those comments does a disservice to their sense of what is honest, and to all that Mel Arnold has done to bring meaningful dialogue back to this riding since he was elected.
“Since being elected, Mr. Arnold has never consulted the public in a fair manner,” writes Cousins.
“Mr. Arnold never gave his constituents an honest effort. Mr. Arnold was asked by constituents to hold town hall meetings last summer to help us understand this issue.”
When was the request put forward, and who specifically generated the request?
I distinctly remember a public meeting with a professor from Okanagan College, named Dr. Elmose, that dealt specifically with this issue.
I am surprised that the lamentations of Nathan Cullen, of the NDP, and Elizabeth May, of the Green Party, have no place in this castigation of the Conservative MP.
To link the validity or non-validity of a survey which Mr. Arnold and all Conservative MPs sent out with the litany of broken promises of the Liberal government strikes me as the effort to find any excuse to ignore the pattern of duplicity that Mr. Trudeau continues to display as pledge after pledge fall by the wayside.
Dean Roosevelt
Vernon
