No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone

Last night I received an email from a resident of Kamloops.  This person is NOT a member of the BC Conservative Party … at least not yet.  Here is what they had to say:

The BC Conservative Party offers a valuable 3rd choice to the voters of BC.  I am amazed how dysfunctional a 2-party system plays out in real life. 

History has shown a minority government actually achieves the wishes of the people.  After all, isn't that what democracy is supposed to work?

Good luck and all the best.

Why is it that the people of BC can understand the need to have a choice, or an option, that fits best with their needs, but not the BC Liberals?

On June 26^th, following a talk John Cummins gave to business leaders in Vancouver, Christy Clark again reiterated her insistence that the only choice the people of BC should have is her Liberal Party.  She said, and I quote:

We need one party, to lead the coalition, against the NDP.  We don’t need two.  And the coalition against the NDP is this party that I lead, the BC Liberals.

What Christy Clark continues to miss, and not understand, is that British Columbians are not listening that message any more.

She has failed to understand, or ignores the fact, that she and her party MUST EARN the vote of British Columbians.  The BC Liberals litany of gaffes, issues, and problems continues to grow day by day; which is why we are seeing people across the province abandoning the party in droves.

People deserve to have a choice … an option where they do not have to support a political party that is their only alternative by default.  This is why John Cummins has continued to say:

“We must give British Columbia’s free-enterprise, middle-of-the-road, non-socialist voters another choice.   Fortunately, there exists such an alternative. That choice is the B.C. Conservatives.  In fact, we represent the only hope to escape an NDP administration in this province after the next election.”

Every day more and more people, like the writer of the email I received last night, are confirming that the BC Conservative Party is on track in providing that choice and option … one that puts openness and accountability at the top of its principles in how government should operate.

Having choice is one of the rights we enjoy in a democracy – and no one should have the audacity to tell us we shouldn’t.

I’ll close today with a quote from author Dr. Shad Helmstetter ... it seems fitting:

“No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone. They are as much a part of you as every breath you will take, every moment of your life.”

I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops, with the thoughts of one conservative.