Bad record on the environment

Dear editor: Thanks to Ben Stewart, West Kelowna and Westbank has been without an MLA for four years, because Christy Clark, who said she was going to reside in the constituency, never showed up for work as promised.

In the meantime, Stewart left the constituency to spend four years in Asia, on a fat salary and benefits.

While he was gone, his buddy Liberals continued the destruction of ICBC, and are now building roads and sidewalks with our insurance premiums, hoping to pick up a few votes.

Site C is another disaster. It was given a green light before performing a complete and comprehensive geological valuation to make sure it would be a safe and solid structure, and now it may not even be built, wasting billions of dollars the province does not have.

Combine that with former premier Gordon Campbell’s run-of-the-river mini hydro installations on our pristine rivers and streams, BC Hydro is also going broke, buying that power for many times more money than it is selling it for.

BC LNG was going to pay off the provincial debt, but Clark was too busy catering to special-interest groups and some obscure Malaysian energy company, and the window of opportunity has been closed.

To stop the corruption, we desperately need an electoral system that will put an end to those dictator-style fake majority governments that represents less than one third of the popular vote.

We need an electoral system that will produce governments that represent all the parties fairly in our provincial Legislature, an electoral system that will put the political power into the hands of the people.

The BC Liberals, like their federal cousins, absolutely hate democratic governments. That is why they have declared war on proportional representation.

To make sure we get to vote on the referendum for electoral reform it’s imperative we vote for the parties that are committed to giving us some form of proportional representation. Andy Thomsen Peachland