Dear editor:
The March 16 issue of the Airdrie City View again reinforced its' decided stance in favour of the NDP. How naïve do you suppose your readers are to not notice this?
"Airdrie-East NDP candidate criticizes UCP's provincial budget" was the article on page A5. "UCP hasn't yet learned its lesson about the birds, the bats and the beasts" was an op-ed on page A6. "The UCP think they own Airdrie" ran as a letter on page A7.
Your paper never received even one letter expressing favour of the UCP? Honestly?
You have surely forgotten what Ms. Notley and her team did during her previous reign of terror as premier. When she came to power in 2015, Alberta's unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent. Not even a year later, it stood at 8.5 per cent.
But hey, that's only about 63,000 fellow Albertans who were left destitute. Failed businesses, foreclosures, suicides, lost dreams – the list goes on.
During Notley's last term in power, Alberta's per capita debt increased almost $3,000. The wonders of deficit spending – something the NDP government excels at. There was no talk of a government surplus, was there? This is the legacy the NDP left us. Do we really want more? A deeper hole?
Rather than buying railway tanker cars for transporting oil her government leased them. Why? Were there no cars to be purchased? Or was it because of her limited vision in supporting our oil and gas? After all, it is certainly fiscally responsible to support an international supplier and neglect your own economy... right?
As the old saying goes, "If we don't remember the lessons of the past, we are doomed to repeat them." Do we really want another Notley repeat?
Wisdom, with knowledge informs us we must do much better.
Arnold Dyck
Thorburn
