Opinion

Editor: With just days to go to the election, our minds should be made up. The vast majority of us apparently want the Conservative Party out of power. There is not a poll that suggests otherwise. That does not mean it is going to happen.

Editor: Real strategic voting is deciding on your values and voting for the person you feel supports them. We’ve been led to believe in B.C.

Editor: This is it – your last chance to be part of democracy in action in Canada. October 19 is D-Day. In 2011 the percentage of those of voting age in Canada who voted was 54.16. In the Central African Republic, 55.67 per cent voted in 2011.

Editor: Congratulations to Andrea and Bruce Kerr for running a very successful Learn to Sail program this past summer.

Editor: On Oct. 1 I attended the public meeting on the George. After 22 years on the Coast I heard once again the same voices raised in opposition as I have heard opposing so many other excellent initiatives in the past.

Editor: Although I live in Victoria now, I remember as a child my grandfather Walter Boucher living in Granthams Landing feeding the seagulls from his window overlooking the coastal mountains.

Editor: Re: Designating the Dr. Frederick Inglis home, Stonehurst, as a heritage house. What a splendid idea and a well-earned tribute to an honourable pioneer family. Although not aware of it, I met the good doctor when I was three weeks old.

Editor: Re: “George Hotel blues” (Letters, Oct. 2). Really? The presence of the Gibsons Waterfront Defence Association at the George open house caused Mr.

Editor: Canadians are approaching what is likely the most important federal election in a generation. While in our system, unlike the American one, we do not directly elect a leader, our individual vote for our MP is a proxy vote for a leader.

Editor: Voter turnout fell to 59.8 per cent in 2008. The median voter turnout for a Canadian general election since 1867 was 70.3 per cent and the highest voter turnout was in 1958, 1962 and 1963 and was up to 79 per cent.