Prime minister lacks social conscience

Dear Editor:

Re: Editorial, “The End of Progressive Conservatives,” (Herald, Aug. 25).

Surely you jest esteemed dditor. Peter McKay is a fine person, I have even met him on several occasions. But to suggest without him leading the Conservative party there will be no social conscience or clear environmental policies suggest to me that you have become a shill for certain voices in the eastern media. Is social conscience only acceptable if it agrees with you? And does a clear environmental policy require your approval?

Currently, I would suggest our federal government has no conscience at all, dislikes women who stand up to the prime minister, thinks ethics is simply a subject students should only take as an option and has no place in government, and socially disparages anyone without a major tilt to the left.

As for environmental policies it doesn’t seem to know what it wants as it had little regard to environmental health in January when it refused to listen to its own military and shut down travel from China, it thinks western oil and gas are the only sources of energy that require environmental impact yet believe oil tankered in from

Washington State and up the St. Lawrence is much better.

I could go on and on.

The point is that I think you should demonstrate more commitment to time if not to research. The new leader has been in position less than 48 hours.

Let’s follow him for a few weeks and then further while he faces parliament and then further on the campaign trail.

Perhaps you will discover a broader interpretation of social conscience and a deeper appreciation of sensible, realizable environmental policies. Glenn W. Sinclair

Penticton