Dear Editor,
[Re: LETTER: Ashamed of Canada, 91原创 Advance Times, July 17]
The letter-writer shouldn鈥檛 hold his breath for bigger and better things to be created by Pierre Poilievre if elected prime minister.
Notably, Poilievre criticizes the Justin Trudeau Liberals 鈥� a leader/party for whom I voted in 2015 for the first and likely last time [mostly to remove Stephen Harper as prime minister] 鈥� for the unaffordability of housing as well as food, both of which are actually largely due to real-estate speculation and/or greed-flation, respectively.
But Poilievre's Tories are at least as corpocratically inclined as Trudeau's Liberals 鈥� i.e. being in bed with Big Business and their lobbyists. Mix in promised Conservative austerity measures with the above unaffordability crisis, and you get a breeding ground for worsened economic conditions thus human suffering. Spared from this turmoil, of course, will be the well-to-to, which tend to side with the money-first-minded Tories.
What will Poilievre do about the fact that the more that giant-grocer corporations and corporate officers make, all the more they irresistibly want to and likely will make next quarter? It's never enough.
In the meantime, he could refrain from repeating his alliterated and/or rhyming slogans supposedly intended to persuade the electorate. I, for one, am embarrassed by their superficiality.
Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock
