Opinion

Dear Editor: If you need a job, you will want to vote for mining and exploration in B.C. The mining industry directly employs more than 9,300 people across every region of the province and indirectly provides employment for another 37,000 people.

What a long, strange trip it's been. B.C.

So just what will the B.C. Liberal party look like the day after the election and will it continue to be a viable, potent political force in this province? That is the question key members of the party are asking each other right now.

Dear Editor: Re: Concerns grow over proposed coal facility, Letters to the editor, The Record, March 13.

Dear Editor: A girl stands before a sea of her 10 to 14-year-old peers. She is shaking and weary from her nerves.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." The quote, attributed to Voltaire, gets pulled out a lot to back freedom of speech arguments. This time is no exception.

Dear Editor: The call for action on climate change no longer just comes from environmental groups but has been joined by the voices of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

First full disclosure: I have a personal financial interest in properties impacted by Port Metro Vancouver's waterlot lease strategy.

Not a day goes by without the B.C. Liberals demanding their NDP counterparts release details of their election platform, only to be met with stony silence from the party that seems to be a government-in-waiting.

Dear Editor: Re: Support for Christy Clark, Letters to the editor, The Record, March 22. Christy is not getting my vote because she's a woman. She not getting my vote because, in my opinion, she's doing a plain poor job.