Dear Ms. Goldsmith Jones:
I have just received your flashy newspaper. I’m sure you remember those little black and white envelopes we all received from John Weston giving us all the news he thought fit to print. Well, I’m here to tell you that each and every one of them ended up on the floor of the post office here in Sechelt because everyone found them so annoying. So annoying, in fact, that there were actual letters complaining about them in our local newspaper. Now you’ve started the same thing, only bigger and more fancy.
It drives us crazy that all of our MPs think it’s just government money and they can do this for free so what’s the big deal. What no one who gets to Ottawa seems to understand is how that money got to Ottawa in the first place. It’s not Ottawa’s money you’re spending – it’s ours and we resent it like the devil to get these kinds of publications on our dime.
We don’t need to know about the budget because we have already watched the news and listened to the radio. We know all about the LNG project in Woodfibre. We really don’t care for any self-aggrandizing information about your world travels to Paris or Kosovo to discuss, among other things, climate change when you’re contributing to it by flying halfway around the world.
All we really care about is to have an MP who will deal with her local constituents and the things that concern us. Selfish as that may sound.
I admire you, I voted for you and I’m begging you to please, please not put out any more of these News Issues.
Sally Wilson, Sechelt
