Editor:
Re: “MP has no plans to open office on Coast,” Jan. 8.
It is good that Lucie McKiernan will represent our new Liberal MP here on the Coast. I can think of nobody better for the job.
But I am appalled that Pam Goldsmith-Jones has decided to forego a local storefront office for our federal government. This choice is revealing.
It shows her true electoral allegiance to the wealthy and numerous voters of West Vancouver, and it also shows that she fails to understand that federal politics in a big, varied and messy riding like ours are complex and maddeningly local. I learned this lesson the hard way working in Ottawa for a guy named Mulroney. The name might ring a bell.
Cowrie Street is unhappily populated with unoccupied commercial real estate. I know our new MP could find a bit of budget to open one of those closed doors so that, through Ms. McKiernan, we may have a voice in our nation’s capital.
Hugh Macaulay, Gibsons
