Time for a change indeed
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Updated: October 13, 2009 11:55 AM
Re: It’s time for a change in New West-Coquitlam (Letters, Oct. 8)
David H Brett is right.
It’s time for a change.
It’s time for Stephen Harper’s minority government to act like a minority government.
To roll up their sleeves and work with the other elected representatives of the people of Canada, no matter what party they belong to. Jack Layton and the federal NDP have shown true leadership in these tough times by holding the Conservatives’ feet to the fire and reminding us there is a way to keep the country working—other than elections every time Mr. Harper doesn’t get his way.
The NDP candidate in the Nov. 9 byelection is strong, intelligent and experienced. Fin Donnelly was born in New Westminster, grew up in Port Moody and has been a seven-year city councillor in Coquitlam. Fin has strong leadership skills and understands the needs of this riding.
The NDP understands and cares about the needs of small business. They understand that for folks like myself, that extra seven per cent next year and the shipping offshore of my employment, means that I won’t be supporting my local businesses as much as I would like to. I won’t be buying that coffee in a coffee shop on 12th Street, or anywhere else for that matter.
The NDP most likely to raise taxes? Give it a rest. Harper handed large corporations a huge tax reduction and is now imposing another seven per cent onto the shoulders of regular families, seniors and students.
So who is most likely to raise taxes? I don’t think David Brett and Diana Dilworth do the same kind of math the rest of us do.
That’s right, “for the sake of our fragile economic recovery, let’s just say no”—to Diana Dilworth and the Conservative’s mismanagement of our economy.
Say “no” to the HST, say “no” to the transfer of the tax burden from the shoulders of large corporations onto consumers and small business.
Sheila Gorman
New Westminster
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