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Misled voters should recall council over raises Hr; Smujfirilk’ mutual ‘guvs s91f'43% raise. M20. 16. Don't say you heard it fmm me, but yup. theYork Simcoe MP and Govern- ment House [Lander is packing his bags in Ottawa and heading home to the farm in (korgina as we speak! Uh-huh. thal’l right. even our all- is‘fair-ilrlove andcpolitics prime minister knows it's time to draw a line In the sand when one of his top dogs publicly and unconditionally defends lying like a rug. ' Running for election a year ago. they knew what the salary W33. Everybody is talking about it. so it must be true! " An immense in rmrnmwnw was not raiml as an election isme Them sutkienly, at the end of the first year of a four year tvrm. they declare they are worth mnskicrably mow. STOP. What you just mad is all a big fat lie. - Ml. Van Loan isn't msigning. And Prime Minister Harpet is just fine with that. 1 can't he. even in the name of what Mr. Van loan calls freedom of Speech. Paying the salaries of these grahcm‘we. the taxpan were not democratically consulted. There should haw: been a town-hall meeting called with all councillors present to justify their position on this issue and to respond to their employer’s (it- the citimm') Because thr reality is anybody lETTERS TO THE EDITOR Freedom of speech doesn’t cover lying id yuu hear that I’ctm Van Loan is migning? NI} You can mad letters. columns and stones from MR 5102- Tribune on yorkmgionmm r Whatdoyouthinkoftheseismo! others? [-0133 letters to the editor to jmsonflyrmgcom mnccms. Living in a democracy. 'hoi wixllni. has a right to input into issues. In these cintumslamces. would that the voters. having been misled. had the right of recall. 7 HAVE YOUR SAV, WHITCHUBCH- STOUFFVILLE with a pinky fingcr's ymnh uf intt‘g- my in hm budy knows what the fort eral Conservatives are condoning And it's wrong. Wrong. Wrong. To dismiss m acccp! this as. mun- dirty pnliticking~ {or which the (inn- wrvatives are particularly mnnwncd. but all the parties (it) to some extrm actually. let's say embracing lying. 'I'hcre wcm no excuses made. no protease that an overly eager young acolyte crossed the line. no promises it will never happen again. rrrrr belimcs every Canadian who val ucs honesty and inmgrity. KATHlfl-ZN GIAZIN ‘ s n w mu I r Debora Kelly SUH“+1i‘ibune PUBLISHER Ian Proudfoot The cat was let out of the bag when Mr. Van [1131] stood in the House to fess up. without a hint of contrition. that the Conservatives are indeed responsible for a series of polling phone (rails in constituents in Liberal lrwin Coiler's Montreal riding over the past couple of weeks saying the MP may resign. "To say that one cannot speCulatc on his future.‘ the inaptly titled Hon. ourablc Mr. Van Loan so patientty explained. “that that form of fireâ€" dom of speech should furever he sup- pressed. is to me an nverreach that is far Inn great." He is daring us with absolutely umn‘itigated gall to accept that lying is the new freedom of Speech. I won't do it. Is anybody serioust still buying the (lonservatives’ pathetic gown t‘xt‘uwe that the Liberals were worse? But now. I feel shame -~ Lord knows. I can't expect Mr. Van Loan and his Conservatives to « that a hanl~fough!â€"for freedom has become a pitiful excuse for a lack of ethics. all I'm proud of mu country and its. gluhal renown for tolerance and respect uf freedoms and rlghls. 6290 Mam St. 30%.. ON UM 167 mpcmoon‘com This behaviour isn't new for the Conservatives; in fact, years ago. Harper adviser 'l‘om Flanagan infa« mously said: "It doesn't have to be true. it just has to be plausible..." in the name of maintaining political power. 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