The Opposition is provoking an election

DEAR EDITOR:

Re: “Summer Election?” by Dan Albas. Moody’s Credit Rating for Canada continues to be AAA. What the Budget Officer and multi economists have repeatedly pointed out is that without government support during this pandemic, the economy would crumble.

With that support , the foundation is laid for resumption, indeed predicted to be 6.1% in the latter part of 2021. The populace has been assisted through ruinous times. Many even have a little money saved, meaning consumer spending could quickly recover.

Curiously, it would seem the Conservative Opposition begrudges that. Even the slightest attention paid to history would preclude that kind of selfish partisanship.

The child poverty rate in Canada alone has dramatically changed for the better in the past six years. Who could want to reverse that? Only a partisan group calling those “the policies of four shades of red.”

On June 20, a five-year old is in life threatening condition, two other children also shot at a toddler’s birthday party in Toronto. Was the leader of the Official Opposition overcome with emotion at the further example of the ravages of gun violence as he brought it up in the House ? He made not a mention.

He continued to belabor “military scandal,” seemingly oblivious to the military record during the Conservative decade, previous to this government.

A time when suicide among military — four in one week — was met with “stonewalling from the Harper government.”

When the military Ombudsman, first Pat Stogran, then Pierre Daigle, requested documents from the Defense Department, the Harper government deemed the records “secret,” “cabinet confidences” and refused. Stogran, military Ombudsman , and a service man himself, was maligned, ridiculed and his medical records revealing PTSD accessed in order to suggest incompetence.

Who are these folks kidding? Messrs Bezan and O’Toole figured prominently during that decade, including when Vance, rather than censured, was appointed.

I would be remiss if I did not point out that in March 2011, the Harper government was the first in the entire history of Canada to be found in Contempt of Parliament, owing to their failure to produce requested documents.

The endless vicious personal attacks the Official Opposition fill their “official” time with, in a desperate bid for relevance, would appear to be nothing other than an attempt to provoke an election “for political purposes.”

Why not admit it ?

Elaine Lawrence

Kelowna