Wednesday Letters: UCP MLAs Overpaid and Underperforming

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To say that, as a citizen of Alberta, who am shocked and appalled by the words and actions of my MLA, Shane Getson, would be the understatement of the year. He rates AHS leadership as overpaid and poorly planned for not anticipating the increased responsiveness of ICU units in our hospitals. He says they should have prepared better for the fourth wave of COVID to hit our healthcare system.

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Following this logic, I would maintain that we also have a ruling contingent of MLAs who are overpaid and underperforming. It was their exact policy to stay away from the pandemic and go on summer vacation that got us into this mess. Since we “finally opened,” this province has become the laughing stock of the Western world, as recent stories in the international media show. I believe that Mr. Getson and his UCP group should have the majority of their wages garnished and sent to AHS to assist the ICU staff and the woefully exhausted acute care hospital system in our province.

James M. Fraser, Parkland County

Lack of leadership from Prime Minister Kenney

Leadership review. This is an oxymoron. A leader recognizes the territory, anticipates eventualities and goes out in front of his people to protect them and ensure their well-being.

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This prime minister has pulled the rug out from under his people with chilling mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis, undermining the health care system, the education system, the doctors and nurses, support staff, teachers and children. teachers, public officials by using our taxes to fund a dying pipeline and to punish our environmentalists. This prime minister has completely failed us because of his unwillingness to do something significant to mitigate the existential crisis of our time: climate change.

A leadership review? We have a leadership vacuum.

Antoinette Vault Roeder, Edmonton

Focus should be on two Michaels

When I received the newspaper from the mailbox, I was surprised and dismayed to see another photo of Meng on the cover of our Edmonton Journal. When she was under house arrest, she was treated like royalty. We have seen and heard enough. Let’s turn our attention to the two Michaels and how we can restore something like them to their lives.

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Judy Petryk, Edmonton

Annamie Paul mistreated by the Greens

I am disgusted by the way the Green Party has treated Annamie Paul and by the lack of censorship from the Canadian public of her treatment. Is it because she has three strikes against her, is she a Jewish black woman, that her own party publicly gutted her? I have lost respect for Elizabeth May, who has not said a word about this moral failure of the party she led. I just hope that a different and better space opens up for Paul to contribute the richness of what he has to Canada and be recognized for it.

Leslie Precht, Edmonton

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