Langley Times

Editor: I read with interest the letter written by Joe Hueglin, (The Times, May 15), and I couldn’t disagree with him more.

As a member of the local Conservative electoral district (Mr.Hueglin needs to realize they haven’t been called constituencies for a while), I thought the recent vote relative to nominations gave me a strong voice into the decision-making process. This is grassroots democracy, a principle on which the Conservative Party of Canada was founded.

Here in Langley, our MP Mark Warawa has been doing an excellent job representing the people in his electoral district and standing up for Langley as a whole. I voted, as did our membership, to pass on a nomination contest and reward Mark for his good work.

Mr. Hueglin also needs to realize that we are in a minority government situation, where as recently as Thursday the opposition threatened to topple the government in June. I think and I suspect a large number of other people (read Canadian taxpayers) would prefer that MPs like Mark Warawa be able to stay in Ottawa and do the good work that they were elected to do a short time ago.

A needless nomination contest would result in him and a lot of other excellent MPs having to return to their electoral districts and troll for memberships and the like, which is necessary to fight a nomination.

Nobody in any party wants, needs or has the time for that now!

Jeffrey B. Bridge,
Langley