Dear Editor:
We've had a good look back in the pages of The Record at 2011, but I think it's time to look ahead.
Buoyed by my great success in predicting that James Crosty would win the mayoralty race, I fearlessly make more political predictions for the benefit of the whole country:
On the federal front, Defence Minister Peter MacKay will switch portfolios and become minister of finance. This will bring both good and bad news. The bad news: within 30 days Canada will have the world's biggest airforce, but the nation will be bankrupt. The good news: we will all be wards of the United Nations and pay no more taxes.
Provincially, Premier Christy Clark will admit that the B.C. Liberals, who arranged the whole HST mess, should pay back Ottawa's HST bribe money out of their own pockets. She will be proclaimed a saint by the taxpayers but tarred and feathered and run out of town by her caucus.
Right here in New Westminster, Mayor Wayne Wright will acquire a hearing aid and, within hours, demand that all railroad activities stop at night and on his birthday.
Tony Eberts, New Westminster
