Site C’s $9B could provide a lot of services for people

Editor: I just consider myself a regular Joe in the whole scheme of things, especially when it comes to politics.

I always make sure I vote, and watch all of the debates between the main candidates prior to the election. I watch the news to see who is slagging who on a particular day, and try my best to see through the lies they all espouse every day to get my vote.

I hate the negative statements. The fact that the NDP made some stupid moves in the 1990s, doesn’t mean that they would not have learned from their mistakes. We hear all the time that every successful person has failed numerous times before they found success.

Does anyone at this time think that John Horgan will look at what happened in the 1990s and try to duplicate that??

I am not a staunch NDP supporter, to be honest, I have rarely voted for the NDP. I listen to Christy Clark’s ads about how many years she has delivered a balanced budget, and I think to myself, OK, but at what cost?

After 16 years of a Liberal government, we still have the highest child poverty rate in of Canada. They have desecrated the education system for our children, both financially, and by inserting special needs children into the normal classroom environment, while removing the needed support staff to handle their specific needs.

This Liberal initiative had to be reversed by the courts, and Clark fought it all the way to the Supreme Court, eventually losing. Obviously a strictly financial decision, and to hell with our children and their education.

I could go on, and on about how Clark has concentrated her efforts on lining her own pockets, with the Liberal “stipends” and “cash for access,” but what’s the use?

For me, I have reduced all of the rhetoric down to one simple thought — Clark’s ads are all about how many billions of dollars Horgan’s proposed platform would cost the citizens of our province, and I think, in the worst-case scenario, if Horgan did all of those things he is promising, as long as he cancelled the Site C dam as he said he probably would, he has $9 billion to spend on enriching the lives of the people of our province, with daycare, health care, education, etc., instead of a worthless Site C dam project.

Wouldn’t this be revenue-neutral to the taxpayer, with no additional funding required?

What’s the risk? Steve Harrison, Vernon