Dear Geoff ... you asked? Well here's the answer.

Former BC Attorney General, Geoff Plant

Today former BC Liberal Attorney, General Geoff Plant wrote a column entitled, “What does John Cummins really want?”

In it, he begins by stating:

Of the two provincial by-election campaigns about to get underway in BC, the race in Chilliwack-Hope may be the more interesting.  It looks like the fight in Barry Penner’s former riding will be between a BC Liberal candidate with impeccable conservative credentials, and a BC Conservative party candidate with impeccable conservative credentials. 

Huh? 

Well, it’s true.  The BC Liberal candidate is Laurie Throness, who was chief of staff to former Conservative MP Chuck Strahl, and calls himself a “policy conservative.”  The BC Conservative Party candidate is John Martin, a professor of criminology and former Chilliwack Times columnist, whose party describes itself as “BC’s only true conservative party.”

So with two candidates trying to “out-conservative” each other, maybe this is as good a time as any to ask what it is that BC Conservative Party leader John Cummins actually hopes to achieve.

He goes on to talk about truth … policies … being an armchair quarterback … the split-vote argument and more … the regular stuff you would expect to hear from the BC Liberals.  Then he concludes by saying:

The beginnings, and reasons, for the Reform Party of Canada

Dear Preston Manning ...

In hearing what you had to say on the CBC TV news tonight, during your visit to BC with Christy Clark and the BC Liberals, it seems you have forgotten your populist roots ... the beginnings of the Reform Party of Canada ... and it's reason for coming into existence.

I became a member of the party in 1988, was on the board of the Kamloops constituency association, and worked on several election campaigns for our local candidates. Please take note of the following and see if they seem familiar to you. They are some of the reasons why I joined the party.

Sincerely,

Alan Forseth