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Re. “Smith sows chaos to push libertarian agenda,” Opinion, June 1
I am in absolute agreement with their summary of Smith’s deliberate policies to undermine Alberta’s position and credibility in our province.
One other point I would add is regarding Bill 20 and the UCP’s move on municipalities. It is the part about no longer using electronic ballot counting systems. They have proven to be exceptionally accurate as shown by the Dominion court case against Fox News in the U.S. where Fox News had to pay millions of dollars to Dominion for their news coverage of Dominion being part of why Trump lost the election, which was proven to be absolutely false.
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If this province’s government goes back to manually counting votes again, there’s going to be a probable scenario of human mistakes and the possibility of election fraud being investigated again. In addition, the cost of hiring multiple extra people at election voting sites all across the province to manually count the votes is extremely expensive. Especially when electronic voting has not caused or been a problem in the past.
This government is trying to fix a problem that isn’t there. They are just following the far-right political party system from the U.S., as they are in a lot of their agenda items. Following a man like Trump who has just been judged a criminal on 34 charges is definitely not the kind of government we should have in Alberta.
Sharon Flemming, Edmonton
Lend Calgary a hand with water woes
I’d be interested to know what role Edmonton is playing in helping Calgary with their water main problems. I’m sure they would offer to help us if we had an emergency like this.
Elizabeth Webster Goddard, Edmonton
Give radar revenues to non-speeders
Many folks, including Alberta’s Transportation minister, lament that photo radar is nothing more than a cash cow. I think to some extent they have an argument. At the same time, municipalities claim that photo radar makes the roads safer and that there are peer-reviewed studies to show this.
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While I’m not going to argue for either case, there’s a way to reconcile these two positions: Keep the photo radar and the fines paid in go into a monthly lottery for those motorists that are not caught speeding. This would give a monetary incentive to remain within the speed limit.
James Gospodyn, Edmonton
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