I always enjoy some entertaining reading Chris! 
Here you go.
Letter to the editor re The Province June 30, 2110. Final word on the
> Harmonized Sales Tax
>
> I find Premier Campbell's remarks on the HST interesting. One point I
> focused on was how he states that they have cut back on taxes since
> being elected, 37 percent since 2001 the Premier says in the article.
> This is true but when we see the financial mess we are in now how wise a
> move was that? We now have had a ballooning deficit the last few years
> with the news now filled how our education, and health care services
> that we so treasure in British Columbia continue to suffer. Many other
> ministry including the Ministry of the Environment has been slashed to
> the bare bones. The Liberal party always boasts about these tax
> reductions but it leads one to ask was it more about using this
> statement time and time again just to get elected 2 more times then good
> fiscal management? The proof now seems to appear in the pudding as
> because of the financial mess we are in the Liberals, in a desperate
> move have had to bring in the HST to try to prevent our deficit from
> growing even more.
> Then we had the Olympics that I have to admit I enjoyed but I believe
> our tax base in British Columbia is too small to be able the afford the
> tax dollars that had to be spent to put this on. More now money added to
> our deficit. Where do we get it from well the HST now appears to be one
> of them while core services continue to face financial hardships.
>
> Also the fish farm issue has been handled so badly, they ignore the
> evidence provided by Dr Alexandra Morton and others, just another
> example of how they really do not seem to care about the environment and
> our wild salmon that are a cornerstone our British Columbia. The same
> wild salmon that have helped build our province with these salmon
> substantiating our First Nation people for thousands of years.
>
> I personally worked as a volunteer on a Valley Liberal Riding
> Association for eight years, since 2001 when the Liberals were first
> elected. I was honored and pleased at first to be asked to serve in that
> capacity and attended the liberals convention in Whistler where I was
> recognized as volunteer of the year in my riding. I also attended a
> president council one time and several other Liberal functions. I
> thought I could make a difference and contribute to our great province
> of British Columbia where our family has resided and raised our families
> for 6 generations with my great grandparents, grandparents and parents
> who were builders of BC, the best place in earth. Actually with my MLA
> we did a few things for the betterment of our area, I held him as a
> friend for many years even before he was elected in 2001, he worked hard
> for us in Chilliwack.
>
> I know being government MLA or a cabinet minister is not easy and some
> time hard decisions have to be faced but over the years I saw this once
> fresh government change and lose touch with the people, the people that
> put them in power to represent them. Transparency on so many issues
> disappeared. Many other ways of being good government slipped away also,
> we are all familiar with them. Two years ago I was so disillusioned and
> left the party and did not renew my Liberal membership. I am glad I did
> as the way the HST would have been the final nail for me as it now will
> be for this once great party in less than 3 years time from now.
>
> Where do I go from here, back to my family roots of the NDP where my
> mother's cousin son Grant Notley was the NDP leader in Alberta before
> he was killed in the 1980's in a plane crash or will it be another party
> that will surface in the years ahead.
>
> All I ask is please donot do what the Liberals have done, lose the trust
> of many of us, over 700,000 who have signed the anti HST petition . Bill
> Vanderzalm made mistakes as well when he was in Campbell's shoes as
> Premier but he has not made one this time in leading the campaign to
> abolish the HST. FANTASTIC work Bill.
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