Conservatives work for the rich in Canada

By Letter to the Editor on July 8, 2021.

Editor:
Miss Harder has a fixation. It is reminiscent of teenagers who insist on rights and freedoms without accepting responsibilities.
As our member of Parliament, we should expect a modicum of self-awareness, of maturity.
What we have been shown is belligerence, lack of cooperation, deliberate obstruction for the work of legislation.
Conservatives claim to want to “hold the government to account.”
They take this to mean, endeavour to embarrass the government in any cheap, childish and insignificant manner possible – criticizing the PM’s choice of costume and party make-up as though the state of the nation rested on these little issues.
Meanwhile, the PC chose to ignore serious mental health and addiction problems, the lack of housing and food for hundreds of thousands of children, the deteriorating environmental and survival issues of the day.
May I suggest PC and Ms. Harder’s values are misplaced?
Oh, she is very photogenic, as we are reminded monthly by her newsletters.
Almost any organization that wishes to make a social splash can call on her presence.
We never hear a serious suggestion to the problems of pollution or climate change, due I suspect to the PC unwavering support for the economy and international corporate shareholder’s profits.
These issues are untouchables. People, real working people problems on the other hand, are unrecognizable to PC.
Homelessness, lack of good water and health services, education for isolated native communities, child care, or food banks never appear on their conference agenda.
Corporate lobby lawyers constantly push to lower workers’ wages and prevent new ways to limit worker’s ability to form unions take precedent.
Lobby for oil and gas corporate unions like Explorers and Producers Associations of Canada (EPAC) are all present, always crying for more subsidy for business out of the worker’s taxes.
These international corporate bloodsuckers get the attention, and they get the subsidies, because Conservatives work for the rich, the people who can’t afford to pay taxes.
Don Ryane
Lethbridge