Dear Editor:
Re: City MP blasts Tories for axing Katimavik, The Record, April 11.
And so he should! When Fin Donnelly was blasting the Tories over axing Katimavik, the Tories were coughing up cash for a jazz event in the east.
What we have in Canada is a government by list, and that list comes from the twisted musings of the prime minister.
I have the feeling that as a small boy he started a list of "Things I would do if I were prime minister," like many of us might do. He put it away in a drawer and then one day, much to his surprise, he was prime minister - and out came the list: "I like fighter planes - Don't like CBC (they discuss things) - Like jazz - Don't like classical or opera stuff - Don't like books- Like the U.S.A. - Not sure about Canada."
Look, it's playoff time - it's OK to support the team of your choice. But to support the Tories just because they're Tories - well, they are not, are they?
To take from a song, Canada as we knew it is "slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away, and the longer this goes on we'll be slip-slid away."
Jim Cowan, New Westminster
