Wednesday's Letters: Separatist Petition Tainted by Voters List Breach
I am writing to express my concern regarding the recent revelation that the Alberta voters list has been illegally shared with groups associated with the Stay Free Alberta petition. It is clear that the individuals who illegally obtained the voters list are unethical persons who cannot be trusted.
What is to prevent the proponents of the separatist referendum from adding unsuspecting Alberta voters to their petition? Their list of submitted names is inherently flawed.
William Evans, Edmonton
Weary of Separatists Hijacking Alberta
Can Alberta politics get any slimier? Forget about the tainted Tylenol scandal, the ongoing privatization of health care, and the abandoned gas and oil wells left for taxpayers to clean up. Those are serious scandals that have squandered taxpayer money but they pale in comparison to the Alberta election database breach. From what I have read, it is alleged that Elections Alberta provided this confidential database to the separatist Republican Party of Alberta. From there, it was uploaded onto a far-right app by a pro-sovereignty group called Centurion Project. The Centurion Project was founded by David Parker, who also founded Take Back Alberta and has close ties to the MAGA movement. He also played a major role in Danielle Smith’s rise to power. I guess this is all a big coincidence but I am getting weary of the way our province is being hijacked by separatists.
John Campbell, Edmonton
Oilers Predicament Could Be Worse
The Oilers season may be over and, yes, there may be a difficult road ahead, but I take comfort in the knowledge that we’re not the Maple Leafs.
Peter McCluskey, Edmonton
Easy Daylight Time Fix for Ski Resorts
Re. “Permanent daylight time could kill ski industry,” Opinion, April 30. There’s a well-worn business tale about a business owner paying a staggering sum to a layperson for a simple, obvious idea that every Ivy League-educated executive had somehow managed to miss. In that spirit, I now offer the following mind-blowing suggestion to save Alberta’s ski industry from collapse: Open ski resorts from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. No letter-writing campaign to the premier required. It’s a modest operational adjustment that would require some website updates, at best. This would be far less complex than reorganizing time itself. If such a breakthrough idea keeps the lifts running, I kindly request that my consultant fee be placed into a trust to perpetually fund down payments for ski resort staff — so they might one day afford to live within commuting distance of the ski resorts they serve. I am confident that a lack of affordable housing will shut down the Alberta ski resorts faster than a time change ever could.
C.S. Tomlinson, Edmonton
