Once again, more comments on topics leaving important facts out of the comments, which in reality is just plain propaganda which seems to be the norm these days.
Firstly, Todd Whitcombe mentions the B.C. Place roof replacement. He fails to mention that B.C. Place was stripped to a shell; nothing left except the skeleton structure. Total dollars spent on the new construction did not just include a new roof.
Construction costs included a complete renovation, from top to bottom, with new seats, new washrooms, new food equipment, new projection features, etc.
Secondly, he mentions the Coquihalla highway but forgets that the Vancouver Island inland highway project completed by the former NDP government of Glen Clark, cost $50 million more than the Coquihalla highway, due to a wage policy that Glen Clark put into place for the project. Contractors, both union and non union had to pay their employees the rates of pay in the wage policy, rates of pay that were outrageous paid for with B.C. taxpayer dollars.
If I want to read fiction, I can go to my local library to do that. I don't expect to read fiction in the newspaper.
Joe Sawchuk,
Duncan
