Youth should skip politics

Dear Editor:

We constantly hear that youth do not vote in elections, and the solution is that they should become more involved in what is going on with our honourable politicians.

This is what they’d learn if they had listened to what was happening last week:

The U.S.A. is in the middle of an election and unfortunately one of their supreme court judges has died.

This also happened in February 2016 and Mitch McConnell, head Republican of the Senate, told President Obama that the appointment of the replacement should be left to the next president, which would be eight months later. Now McConnell has no problem having President Trump nominate a replacement with only eight weeks until an election. Honourable?

Erin O’Toole, head of the Conservative party, has been demanding that Parliament reconvene with all its MPs in attendance. Then he tests positive with COVID-19 and now has no problem with virtual meetings. He had to wait three hours for his test and complained that Trudeau was not doing enough to enable faster testing. I guess he forgot that health care is a provincial responsibility, but the Ontario government is Conservative.

Honourable?

Four premiers fly to Ottawa and hold a press conference in a hotel. They want the federal government to increase health-care transfers by $28 billion. Must be the logic of “good if federal deficit increases, bad if provinces have to raise taxes to pay for increased health care.” Honourable?

Maybe it would be better if the youth did not become involved with the news and we just told them that they should do the honourable thing and vote for a candidate they like. David Perron West Kelowna