Dear Editor:
Wow, our province’s Legislative Assembly again started to work on Feb. 13.
The last time our Legislative Assembly sat was on May 31, 2012.
Fundamental to our parliamentary process is an active Legislative Assembly where the elected government answers to our elected representatives.
The passage of laws, the discussions of budgets and financial statements and the opportunity for the opposition parties to question government actions are fundamental to our democratic process. None of this took place.
Since May 31, our Legislative Assembly has not met.
Yet, in contrast, since May 31, Alberta’s Assembly has met 38 times, Saskatchewan’s 34 times, New Brunswick’s 35 times and Newfoundland’s 33 times.
Either the Liberal party has snubbed our province’s citizens or the Liberals have no understanding of our parliamentary system.
In reality, British Columbia has been without a representative government for eight months.
If the public gives Christy Clark and the Liberal Party one vote in the next election, that is one vote too many.
And this letter is coming from someone who once voted Liberal.
David E. Gregory
Summerland