Regarding your July 5 editorial ("Could Bond rhyme with orange"), it does not.
It would take copious consumption of soon-to-be-legalized hallucinogens to get my head around that one.
I share your certainty that Shirley Bond will not be crossing the floor to the NDP ranks in the near future.
While there are areas of agreement, the differences in core principles between the NDP and Liberals in Victoria are far more pronounced than those between the Conservatives and Liberals in Ottawa. The gap facing David Emerson was a fraction of the chasm that would face Shirley Bond (or Mike Morris, for that matter).
And, public cynicism notwithstanding, principles matter to many politicians - especially the good ones. Shirley Bond's commitment to her core beliefs is well known by those of us who walk with her on this path. Her effectiveness in the government was in no small part due to her internal consistency.
I'll make you a bet. Should either of our MLAs cross the floor in the 18 months that this government survives, I will parade you down Victoria Street in a pedicab wearing an orange shirt and sporting a John Horgan election button. If not, you do the pedalling wearing a B.C. Liberal shirt and a Morris/Bond button. Will you take that bet?
L. Charles Scott
Prince George
Editor's Note: So you want to wager on something we both agree won't happen but you get the status quo bet and I get the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! bet? That should come with odds, don't you think? And you're talking about doing this in 18 months or January 2019. That'll be one cold pedicab ride!
