So many unkept Liberal promises
It’s hard to compliment our Liberal government when most of the platforms and promises have not been kept.
Firstly, the promise of running the country on a deficit of $10 billion, when, in fact, the government has projected a $28.5 million deficit in 2017-18. Tackling ex-PM Harper’s Bill 51 tough-oncrime legislation, as promised, is untouched. There is a complete absence of make-work programs to deal with the increasing unemployment numbers.
The biggest blunder was the reneging on the promise to change our voting system to proportionate representation. This one promise was the reason for his party’s elected status. So, how can Canadians take his words and promises as the truth?
Then there’s the heart-rending news on the lives of the Cross Lake First Nations, with the chief declaring, “We are beggars in our own country,” with increasing suicides, murders and terrible housing.
Still Trudeau is permitting the plague of narcotics on Canadians, with no announced penalties for the sellers of these killer drugs, despite the increasing deaths.
In his very recent auditor’s report, Mr. Ferguson reprimanded the federal government for the ongoing fossil fuel subsidies still being paid to the mostly foreign oil and gas entities and not reporting on them. That is no news to Albertans; the giveaway of our grandchildren’s future royalties has been one of the largest in modern history. Yes, indeed, Peter Lougheed’s dream was unmercifully given away by the 44 years of Conservative government domination. Yet we are still subsidizing these oil companies provincially, also.
We must remember these facts at voting time, whether the right unites or not. One of the most laughable announcements to come from the prime minister’s office was the huge tax increase announcement for the wealthy! Did you expect anything else?
The bold financial action of taxing the rich to the miniscule one per cent reminded one of the bold knight in armour, riding his white stallion to victory.
The ongoing photo-ops and speeches around the world would seem like an agenda for his future dream for a United Nations executive position.
Apologies for being so critical, and we must keep smiling and take a little more time and interest for what we wish for, and what we leave for the next generation.
Frank J. Toth
Lethbridge