To the Editor:
I had a good chuckle at your article in the Thompson Citizen last week regarding Steve Ashton and his organized labour cronies’ opposition to the new government. Besides being virtually a commercial advertisement for the NDP party, thinly disguised as a journalistic article, what I found most humorous was Steve Ashton trying to blame the problems with Manitoba Hydro and the layoffs at Vale on the new government. Sorry, Steve, you are not going to sell that fiction to too many people. We all knew that the bankrupting of Manitoba Hydro was coming, we were warned about it while you were in government. You were voted out in large part because you couldn’t control your spending and were ignoring pleas from the Public Utilities Board to get Hydro spending under control. I won’t even get into the “billion dollar boondoggle” of building the transmission line down the west side of the lake.
Then comes Vale layoffs, something your government had almost a full term to head off before it got past the point of no return. That’s not even to mention the restrictive and unfriendly business environment for our mining industry that experts from around the world were telling you was costing us investment in this province.
Sorry, Steve, if you want to protest something ... protest against another NDP government anytime soon. The last one did too much damage.
Darrell Klus
Thompson
