Conservative party still haunted by old ghosts

The problem with the direction of the Conservative party are the ghosts of the Reform party.

The chief culprit is Stephen Harper, who still is the puppet master, needs some fresh ideas and must do a disconnect of its past.

To deny climate change is a Flintstoneion ideology and pandering to the West is hopeless in trying to persuade Canadians they should vote Conservative.

The numbers simply don’t add up. Erin O’Toole is like watching a hummingbird flit from flower to flower. His incessant complaining, while never offering a solution to the problems he complains about. The man is a dud of epic proportions and should be given the hook sooner than later.

Electricity is the future and we need to have a national focus on how to provide Canadians with affordable electricity. Newfoundland and British Columbia have out-of-control spending on megaprojects and Ontario has a vital transmission line blockaded. Ontario spends billions of taxpayer dollars on nuclear power with a shelf life of 50 years per generating plant.

Currently, Quebec stands to become the next Alberta with their abundance of hydro electricity. Oil is the past and not the future and we should be encouraging Canadians to look to the future and not live in the past.

To take this province by province simply isn’t either feasible or responsible financially.

Our so-called friends south of the border are spending trillions on infrastructure and don’t have sufficient or reliable electricity and Canada could become the new Saudi Arabia to the U.S. with a new-found abundance of electricity in the future.

The federal government can take on an infrastructure project to bring affordable power to the nation, if we all got on board and embraced the concept, like we did with the Avro Arrow. Taking on this ideology could propel the party back to power, which can’t be accomplished with Harper pulling the strings.

Bruce Sutherland, Otonabee Drive