More Letters to the Editor

These letters of mine were published in The Calgary Herald in the last month, but I can't seem to find them on-line to post here?....very hit-and-miss.  For your edification, here's what's stumbling along in Alberta from my perspective..............

 

February 1, 2013

Dear Editor,

Premier Redford summoning “big thinkers” to an economic summit to tell her what to do about the province’s fiscal mess? Isn’t that what we elect premiers and governments to do? We don’t need another “conversation”, we need bold action.

 

Nancy Marley-Clarke

February 9, 2013 

Dear Editor,

Premier Redford’s ever-changing strategies and announcements to fix the province’s fiscal problems remind me of what the White Queen declared in ‘Alice in Wonderland’...”Why, sometimes I believe six impossible things before breakfast!”

 

Nancy Marley-Clarke

February 22, 2013

Dear Editor,

What most people don’t realize, because the schools don’t teach it anymore, is that any major change to the Senate – such as doing away with it – would require an amendment to the constitution. That gargantuan task would in turn require unanimous agreement among all the provinces and territories. And even with that impossibility, they would have three years to change their minds. Never going to happen. As to an elected Senate, welcome to complete gridlock. Just ask our American friends to the south how that’s working for them.

 

Nancy Marley-Clarke