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Date Posted: 13:35:31 03/16/03 Sun
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Joe;
I would like to add my feelings concerning this latest "Call to arms" by the Mackay camp.
I think the Orchard supporters should take the high road and shrug off these cheap attempts to scare people. Mackay is trying to sound alarmist to say the least but it must be taken in the context of a spirited race. A few points:
1. It would be nice to remind everyone that the idea of this whole exercise is to win new members AND public support for the party. David Orchard seems to be doing just that.
2. If he is winning great numbers of supporters, and you don't have to believe the Orchard people, - Mr. Mackay's people are shreaking it for them,- it is an insult to the intelligence of huge numbers of people to say that David Orchard would not represent both the PC Party and a good wide base of the Canadian public. The way Mr. Mackay's people are questioning Mr. Orchard makes them (Peter
Mackay's gang) appear elitist and arrogant.
3. The other candidates have answered in part for Orchard.
Mackay is trying to alarm supporters of other contenders into jumping over to his team and abandoning their first choice. Very cheap indeed, especially so early in the race.
4. Are the use of alarmist tactics the type of characteristic we would want in a leader who we as a party want to present to the public as our candidate for Prime Minister?
5. How would Mr. Mackay attract the broad base that Mr.Orchard tends to bring to this party; support that is ESSENTIAL if we EVER want to win an election again.
6. It would serve everyone; Canadians who really distrust and don't like the Liberals, some on the right who hate anything Liberal, most importantly the huge numbers in the centre who relate to a Canadian ethos, and many on
the left who would vote for a centrist party just to get rid of the Liberals; it would serve us all if all contenders for the leadership just kept their eye on the ball and considered all the ways of bringing some support back to the PC Party of Canada.
7. There are many important issues to be faced and debated properly, concerning our future as a nation, our way of life, even the future of the planet, items much more on the minds of voters than some cheap shots by a leadership candidate towards another very popular one.
8. For a lawyer Mr. Mackay's stand on the Iraq crisis leaves alot to be desired. I thought Lawyers swore an oath to uphold the law. His willingness to abandon International law for the expedience of, as he puts it "doing something" is to me far more alarming than a prairie farmer attracting
thousands of people to support him in his bid for the leadership of the party. Mr. Mackay and his team would do well to try and act more responsibly in the interst of the PC Party in general.
Steve Corrie
President, PC Association of Delta-South Richmond, BC
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