Dear Editor,
The voters of Alberta gravely need to educate themselves on the undertakings of their current government, because through administration to administration they sing the same old song. The faces may change but their objectives come from the same playbook. The truth is, regardless of who sits at the helm, the PC government is bent on dismantling or reducing the public services; which fits a political ideology. It has nothing to do with the price of oil or the economy. Nine months after a majority election Redford tried to rip away union arbitration, bypass the collective bargaining process and freeze public service wages. All this while the MLA’s wages rose 48 percent. It is the same political theater now, even though there is a $50 difference in the price of oil, so it is not about the economy, but an agenda. If it was about Alberta’s revenue shortfalls then there would be a demand on the corporate profiteers to pay their share. No this game is about a dictatorship control and stripping the public sector of its right to arbitration by enforcing what is called essential services. There is no longer respect for the middle income public services.
So, who else can we vote for when the Wildrose Party rocked the province just before Christmas, when nine of their core members played musical chairs and crossed the floor to the waiting arms of the PC party. This party treachery arguably collapsed the effectiveness of the opposition.
Then there is the NDP who’s platform has always been to increase tax on the profiteers to fill their share. They understand and respect that a strong healthy public sector is the glue that holds a modern society together.
It is said that only 75 percent of Albertans will decide to vote and of this 75 percent a majority are friends and profiteers of the PC party, so the only way to make change is to honour your legal right to vote and use it. If you are unhappy about this tax increase and reduction to public services then make your vote count and change the political scene in Alberta. Stop repeating the expression that your vote won’t count anyway. Of course it does but only if you use it. Prentice said it best, “look in the mirror,” because this is your doing.
W. Krechuniak
