Pubdate: Tue, 23 Sep 2008
Source: Review, The (Keremeos, CN BC)
Copyright: 2008 Black Press
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/KXEdlhT0
Website: http://www.keremeosreview.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4048
Author: Denise Williams

TIME FOR A CHANGE IN POLITICAL PARTIES

To the editor:

Daily reports of gang violence, people with mental health issues
causing problems &/or living in the streets, drug gangs and drug
additcts - when will it all end? With a conservative government which
believes in the hard line (put them all in jail) we'll likely just
continue with more of the same. How many people even know that the
Correctional Facility in Kamloops which is meant to house 160 inmates
now has over 350? Most of these are living in tents. What will happen
this winter? Riots?

And we have absolutely no plan of how to deal with our rising number
of homeless people, even families, living in the streets, or way below
the poverty line. We'll no doubt have more of the same - it's been
more money for the rich and less for the rest of us since our
Conservative friend Brian Mulroney linked us up with the US Free Trade
Agreement.

It's time for a change. Let's be radical and try New Democrats. After
all, they're responsible for our initial Health Care System, Social
Programs, minimum wages, unions and all those things we've taken for
granted for so long and are fast losing in Canada.

Denise Williams

Merritt
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