Mr. Fletcher continues to put his foot in his mouth it seems. He insists that Premier John Horgan’s priorities (the opioid crisis, housing and a lumber trade deal with the U.S.) is merely “a pirouette from protest to public relations, in the Trudeau style” – because “there’s little he can do about any of these things that isn’t already being done.”
Oh really, Mr. Fletcher? The only things “being done” were a stack of pre-election promises by the former premier, that have had no substance behind them. The opioid crisis continues unabated, with little of substance getting to the root causes (such as, for example) emulating the success on a grander scale of Woodwynn Farms, because it is evidently too expensive to ramp up for the thousands that could benefit.
And the housing crisis needs to have an excess of housing so the prices drop for both purchasers and renters. But who is going to build these to lower their profits, instead of increase them? As for the softwood lumber debacle, rather than the U.S. levy a tax on imports of Canadian lumber, B.C. should have upped the price to the U.S. Besides, housing starts in the U.S. are dropping, so what is our leverage in pursuing “the art of the deal” with the current U.S. administration?
Richard Weatherill
Saanich