Editor, The Times:
Sixteen years of Liberal mismanagement and outright fraud have left our public enterprises either gone or in disarray.
Gone are BC Rail, plus parks and highway maintenance. On life support are the likes of ICBC. In slow recovery mode are our public health care and education systems.
Our civil services have survived due to the strength of the BCGEU union. Hopefully, the privatizing frenzy of the last 16 years has ended.
ICBC survived because it was both a cash cow and a scapegoat for public anger at rising insurance costs.
In fairness, the Liberals were not the sole cause of ICBC’s woes.
Our bad driving habits and greedy lawyers also played their parts.
READ MORE: ICBC rates go up 6.4 per cent Nov. 1
In public education funding, starvation and ever increasing diversion of funds to the private system reflected the philosophy of the Liberal government.
Public health care suffered the same fate under the Liberal government.
Our task now is to make sure that the present regime sticks to its socialist ways and does not fall back into the trap of money being more important than people.
Wes Morden
Blackpool, B.C.