Prop rep powers up your vote
Dear editor: Soon British Columbians can make history and be the first province in Canada to modernize our archaic voting system. And then, after two elections with the new system, we get to decide if we like it permanently.
For once, politicians are putting the people in the driver’s seat.
Proportional representation means British Columbians in the Interior and North will never be excluded, as they are currently. I particularly appreciate the inclusion of the rural-urban system as one of the three options.
It is a slight modification of the Citizens Assembly recommendation to safe-guard rural representation and we know it works.
Contrary to what has been reported, the rural-urban option was in place in both Manitoba and Alberta from early 1920s to mid-1950s. In both instances it was repealed by politicians for political reasons. The people had no say. Vote yes to power up your vote! Nick Loenen
Richmond happened at their consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, where a prominent dissident Saudi columnist employed at the Washington Post suddenly went missing.
It’s a major international incident where the story keeps changing hour-by-hour, beginning with blanket denials from the Kingdom, gradually morphing into an unlikely scenario where the journalist was accidentally killed by rogue government operatives in a fist-fight. Who knows what’s next?
That’s why the Canadian PMO spinmeisters are needed in Riyadh.
By sugar-coating everything for their boss, he becomes the darling of the world’s media; even his uncontrollable narcissism with a penchant for silly selfies, childish Sock Diplomacy and playing Mr. Bollywood Dress-Up somehow becomes palatable.
Now the PMO can renew Canada's good name in the desert Kingdom, while contracting out their super skills to renew the Saudis’ good name around the globe.
We’ve witnessed three years of the PMO putting positive spin on everything, so fully expect to soon learn that Mr. Khashoggi got a piece of sugar-coated Turkish Delight stuck in his throat when at the consulate in Istanbul.
While trying to extract it, the Saudi forensic medical experts accidentally but painlessly dislodged his head from his shoulders.
Hey! If the global media believes that juvenescent Justin is the free world’s new leader, they are obviously willing to believe anything. Bernie Smith Parksville