Dear Editor:
RE: Let the (wo)man speak, Sept. 8.
I would like to thank Dave Adsett for his editorial comments in last week’s newspaper.
We are living in a time where people are anxious about employment, housing, health care and the cost of living. Increasingly there is a belief that government policies and business greed is the cause of these problems. The resulting voter disaffection has given rise to an anti-elite populism.
The decision by the Centre Wellington Chamber of Commerce to abandon hosting candidate nights in favour of hosting a morning coffee event (with admission fees) that limits dialogue, only feeds into the anti-elite belief that there are “gatekeepers” who limit the public’s assess to government.
The Chamber of Commerce would appear to be tone deaf to the people who support local businesses. The citizens of Centre Wellington deserve better.
Kent Smith,
Fergus