Opinion

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.

Editor: Several hundred coastal residents attending last week’s all-candidate’s early-evening forum at the Sechelt Band Hall were stood up by Conservative candidate John Weston. Again. Though this one was arranged to suit Mr.

Editor: I wonder why John Weston backed out at the last minute from the Oct. 2 all-candidates forum in Sechelt.

Editor: Re: “Mr. Weston finds a wedge issue” (Editorial, Oct. 2). One of the more frequent concepts bandied about by the “liberal left” is the term Canadian Values.

Editor: People in Halfmoon Bay who for decades have voted at Coopers Green need to make sure they read the back of the voters card they received from the federal government in the mail.

Editor: During the last 50 years a variety of prime ministers from Quebec have plundered our West and have squandered the moneys in Quebec, the Maritimes and Ontario.

Editor: Highway versus bridge? A tunnel from Horseshoe Bay to Gibsons is the best solution to this “absolute necessity” problem. We all “dig tunnels” like the one from England to France and back.

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