Dear Editor:
RE: A disaster, Sept. 23.
Barbara Cooper admits that she doesn’t know much about the People’s Party, yet she feels qualified to condemn the PPC for its position on COVID-19, and to imply that it is anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, racist and bigoted.
If she had taken the time to read the PPC platform posted on its website, she might have discovered that most of its policies are reasonable and would likely appeal to conservative thinkers as well as others.
With respect to COVID-19, it is not opposed to vaccines, but “promote(s) a rational and scientifically based approach” that “oppose(s) vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, and other authoritarian measures.” This position no doubt won the support of anti-vaxxers, some of whom may have been overzealous.
The PPC does not take a stand on “reproductive rights,” but it does highly value freedom of expression, so that it allows pro-lifers to run as candidates and to express their views. Its great respect for “freedom” even extended to allowing cannabis entrepreneur Marc Emery to run as a PPC candidate.
I could also find no basis in the party’s immigration or other policies for Cooper to imply that the Party is anti-immigrant, racist and bigoted.
I have been a Conservative Party member and supporter for many years. However, due to O’Toole’s abandonment of conservative principles on carbon taxes, climate change, balanced budgets and other issues, and because he and my local candidate apparently have little use for social conservatives (other than our votes), I had no problem voting for the local PPC candidate this time.
Henry Brunsveld,
Puslinch
*Editor’s note: Among its immigration plans, the PPC platform specifically states the party wants to cut immigration levels by 57 to 71%, it wants to accept fewer resettled refugees and it blames “mass immigration” for inflating housing prices.