Home show a smashing success

Dear editor: The board of directors would like to thank all who supported the 23rd Annual Canadian Home Builders’ Association South Okanagan Home & Reno Show, sponsored by Parker’s Chrysler Dodge Jeep.

Over 5,000 of you visited the show over the past weekend. We appreciate your consistent support over the past years.

Congratulations to Jody Bauman, winner of the $2,500 door prize, sponsored by Skyview Closets & Blinds.

Thank you to the exhibitors, representing over 100 businesses serving Penticton and the Okanagan Valley. The companies represented at the show went the extra mile to bring you the latest in innovation, technology and spent months planning their exhibit to educate and bring value to your life.

Thank you to Parker’s Chrysler Dodge Jeep, the primary sponsors of the event. A special thank you to Par-T-Perfect and Moduloc for sponsoring the Kids Fun Zone. Thanks to the fantastic staff at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre who know how to help bring an event like this to life.

The Home and Reno Show serves as the association’s fundraiser with proceeds being used to run the association for further educational outreach, lobbying and acting as a spokesperson for the housing industry in the South Okanagan.

CHBA South Okanagan continues to focus on issues related to the residential construction and renovation industry including our annual bursary to Okanagan College construction students and assorted other educational events.

Carol Sudchak, executive officer Canadian Home Builders’ Association,

South Okanagan

Joy Lang asks why would I declare that the free Aboriginal services (in the minds of Aboriginals) should be expected to continue as normal.

I was referring to what could happen if Canada's exports to Asian markets were shut down due to half of B.C.'s Aboriginal bands protesting pipelines and seaports.

I should have mentioned that a lot of off shore money from the Tides Foundation in San Francisco and the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City has found its way into the bank accounts of the protesting Aboriginals.

Why did former PM Harper introduce the Accountability Act, the legislation which would hold chiefs accountable to their own people and the taxpayers?

Here are three of those reasons: Chief Ronald Morin of the Enoch band west of Edmonton pays himself $750,000 tax-free annually. He winters in Las Vegas, lives in a four-car garage house with a swimming pool.

A Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) chief with less than 100 people on his reservation pays himself $944,000 tax-free annually.

Chief Teresa Spence of the Attawapiskat Reserve in Northern Ontario (1,800 people) wrote 81 cheques for millions of dollars. There is no cheque register to track where the money went to.

Former PM Harper sent finance department accountants into her band office to correct the corruption; 24 hours later she threw the accountants off her reserve.

A few months later she staged a hunger strike on the frozen ice of the Ottawa River; directly across from Parliament Hill; her constant companion during the strike was Trudeau Jr. He was an MP at the time. He should have been in the House of Commons, representing his constituency.

The Attawapiskat Band has a diamond mine on its reservation. The mine pays a royalty of $200 million annually.

After winning the election, one of Trudeau's first acts was the cancelling Harper's Accountability Act.

As far as water treatment plants are concerned, the Liberals have been lying to natives for 50 years.

For the past half-century, the Liberals have promised to build water treatment plants on reservations – similar to the plant servicing Penticton's 35,000 people.

Bands with 2,000 or less people should use household water distillers; much more efficient and a whole lot less expensive. Distilled water is the cleanest and purest water on the planet. Ernie Slump Penticton