Opinion

Dear editor, Two years ago I joined the provincial Liberal party and had the first-time experience recently of voting for our new leader in a regional and preferential voting system.

Dear editor, At numerous public meetings over the past few months, the question has been raised whether or not the proposed Raven Coal Mine Project near Fanny Bay is just the beginning of numerous coal mines being developed in the Comox Valley.

Dear editor, I appreciate Mr. Knowles' critique of the apprentice operating a table saw as displayed in the Record (Feb. 23). Mr. Knowles is correct if the apprentice was performing a rip cut. However, the apprentice is instead cutting a small rabbet into the edge of the board. The operation was set up and demonstrated by the instructor prior to the student undertaking the cut.

In retrospect, maybe we should have been able to predict the provincial Liberals would choose Christy Clark as their new leader and our second female premier.

My wife Rosa and I would like to thank the RCMP for their warning of those 鈥渁ir quality surveys" in the Friday Record.

Re: Location of new hospital. Over the Tsolum River is a 鈥渢emporary鈥� bridge.

In refusing to comply with a request from CoalWatch for comprehensive aquifer mapping and modelling for the proposed Raven Coal Project in the Comox Valley, Minister of Environment Murray Coell has effectively shut down any kind of meaningful environmental assessment.

Thought I would forward our latest communication with my son (Eli Campbell) over in Cairo.

I think it鈥檚 important to remind ourselves of the state of our electoral system today. It was expressed succinctly during our last provincial election and referendum on electoral reform in the words of our now-to-be premier, Christy Clark.

When people think of the term shoplifting, they just imagine an item being stolen.