Fake news from the Conservatives

EDITOR’S NOTE: An inadvertent error in editing changed the context of this letter which first appeared Feb. 21. The Courier regrets the confusion. Dear Editor: Re: Politicians create the fake news

(Courier letters, Feb. 9)

I totally concur with the writer’s assessment. It is unfortunate that politicians cannot always be relied upon for complete honesty.

It has been said everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news of U.S. president John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

I myself distantly remember a sub-zero morning, putting wood in the wood stove in my Saskatchewan home, before going out to start the morning’s work in our dairy farm.

It was scant months after the Conservatives had taken over from the Liberals, assuming the $13-billion surplus left to them. I watched on television when the finance minister denied the $56 billion deficit his Conservative government had created well in advance of any recession.

Within hours, he had to admit to those very immodest numbers.

Similarly, I clearly remember those memorable words, “Good to go” from certain in the prime minister’s office regarding the Mike Duffy subterfuge.

Ah, and those Robocalls — and no one at all is to blame — except the hapless Michael Sona.

An appointed senator — also peering out from under the bus, after initially being cleared to declare his provincial “residency” on the basis of an empty corner lot.

None of this occurred in the distant past, but in the decade preceding this Liberal government.

Disappointing, isn’t it. Elaine Lawrence Kelowna