To the editor:
Re: "Voter suppression typical of Harper regime," Letters, March 16.
It's bad enough that Stephen Harper's small-majority government is making deep cuts to social programs, making this world just a little bit worse of a place for many impoverished Canadians, so his Tory government can still allegedly balance their budget while still subsidizing and granting record-breaking high corporate tax cuts to those needing the gratuitous monies the least. And even worse, Harper and his fisheries minister plan on considerably weakening Canada's habitat protection laws in regards to the federal Fisheries Act to empower corporate mineral-extraction interests, not to mention completely ignoring, muzzling, deeply cutting funding for and/or outright eliminating environmental safeguard agencies (ie: Environment Canada).
But to add salt to the wound, the Tory government's small majority, that's apparently allowing borderline dictatorship-like status which may even aid them in suppressing evidence on the robocalls matter, could be the direct result of electoral fraud apparently by the Conservative party or elements within.
Frank G. Sterle, Jr.,
Vancouver
