Dear editor,
This letter is in response to Banff-Airdrie MP Blake Richards, regarding his recent newsletter article on "freedoms."
I was both surprised and appalled to read your views on your perceived "freedoms" regarding the ongoing (yes, it is still ongoing) pandemic measures in your recent newsletter.
First off, vaccines are not mandated. Every Canadian still has a choice to be vaccinated or not. Disallowing unvaccinated persons (about 15 per cent of the population) to work in the federal civil service echoes the policies of most employers and makes perfect common sense as far as protecting the majority. Mandating means that no one would have a choice and must be vaccinated whether they choose to or not. As with all other corporate policies, if we don't like them, we can always find another job.
As for travel "headaches," I would rather answer a dozen redundant questionnaires and be subjected to random testing than get COVID. If my 85-year old mother can use ArriveCAN, anyone can. Where was all this indignation over the "headaches" of increased security measures after 9/11?
I just left the health-care industry in Alberta after 15 years, because the conservatives, under Premier Jason Kenney, have run the sector into the ground. I can't see it ever recovering. The pandemic was just the final push off the cliff.
Mr. Richards, please do not presume to speak for me. I am no longer a supporter of the UCP. The views and opinions you claim to support represent a small percentage of the population.
But that is the UCP's remaining support base, isn't it?
