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Reader believes election call is unnecessary
Dear Editor,
Mr. Harper's unnecessary and
expensive call for an election cam-
paign of 11 weeks, is yet another
example of his willingness to
squander taxpayers' money in a
political, self-serving manner. In a
leading article in the National Post
on July 29, John Dryden outlined
the manner in which it will cost
Elections Canada
and Canadian taxpayers tens of
millions dollars extra to run this
election campaign, twice the
length of election campaigns in
recent history and the longest
campaign since 1926.
His early call is likely based on
the fact that his party has the larg-
est war chest for those most dis-
tasteful television attack advertise-
ments. Advertisements which
focus on destroying the charac-
ters of his opponents rather than
on explaining the political plat-
form of his party. Advertisements
which would be disallowed by any
grade -school teacher, as
being utterly distasteful and irrele-
vant as to what Canadians
really need to know in the run up
to an election, should her stu-
dents be asked to run a mock elec-
tion campaign.
Alas for Mr. Harper, there really
is a silver lining in every cloud of
his making The most recent publi-
cation by Mel Hurtig, The Arrogant
Autocrat, is an easy to read, well -
researched, factual summary of
the multitudinous and serious
ways Mr. Harper has slyly and
severely damaged Canada's future
and international reputation. A
positive outcome of this long cam-
paign is that all concerned Canadi-
ans can choose to read The Arro-
gant Autocrat at their leisure
before we go to the polls in
October.
Yours truly,
Jim Hollingworth, MD
Goderich, Ontario
From the archives
15 years ago...
• The Tuckersmith day nursery cele-
brated 25 years of child care.
• In light of the Walkerton E. coli
outbreak, the Ministry of Environment
announced that the previously
optional Ontario Drinking Water
Objectives were legally binding. The
new strict rules to protect drinking
water quality applied to waterworks
that supplied six residences.
• "The Drinking Water Protection
Regulation contains a comprehensive
requirement for the sampling and
testing of drinking water."
• The next phases of the sign con-
struction at the Clinton Racetrack
Slots were completed in advance of
the opening on the gaming centre
opening.
25 years ago...
• Paul Rudin urged Canada to get rid
of the penny. He said, "A penny buys
nothing, you can't get much for 50
cents and a buck is spent faster than
the blink of an eye."
• More than 300 swimmers from
Goderich, Clinton, Lucknow, Seaforth,
Exeter, Wingham, Mitchell and Strat-
ford met in Clinton to take part in the
season finals of the inter -county com-
petitive race series. The Clinton team
reclaimed the tide as regional champi-
ons in the meet. For the two years pre-
vious Goderich had held the title and
previous to that Clinton won it seven
years running.
• As the result of information
received by the Crime Stoppers of
Huron County, two crimes were
solved. A $3,000 ABS butt pipe fuser
was recovered in Clinton.
35 years ago...
• The attendance at the Blyth Sum-
mer Festival was 122 per cent of the
previous year's attendance.
• A former Bayfield councillor faced
fraud charges. Milton Van Patter who
resigned from his post as finance
chairman of Bayfield village council
was charged in Goderich provincial
court with three counts of fraud
involving $30,000.
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