Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

Letter to the editor: Canada is not in decline

Politics is like sports, sometimes your team is up and sometimes it is down, a letter writer says.
Letters typewriter
A letter writer responds to a column by Prince George Citizen columnist Nathan Giede.

In reply to Nathan Giede's opinion “Third times a charm for Tories” I tend to view government like big sports associations, some time your team is up and sometimes down. 
You need a better manager, better players, attract more fans. Yet the one thing that keeps you going is not falling into “the sky is falling” attitude, stay focused and your day will come. I believe blaming a current government be it Conservative or Liberal for the countries decline is an insult to a voters intelligence. Having lived here for 44 years I have yet to witness Canada’s “decline” 
Let us not be deceived that voters are more important to parties than when they go into make their mark, after which it is back on the roller-coaster and be assigned to opinion columns. Saying the country “will not survive on its current trajectory” is again “sky is falling” negativity to sway voters’ opinions. 
I am not for one minute naive enough to think we do not have serious issues to solve, I do believe it will not be one party that has the mandate to solve these issues.
Ross Pullan,

Prince George