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Citizens need to take action on teachers’ dispute

Listening to Christy Clark finally speak regarding the teachers’ strike, it was clear to me whose leading their position on this action

Listening to Christy Clark finally speak regarding the teachers’ strike, it was clear to me whose leading their position on this action. It comes from the top. It reminded my of an old ’50s movie where the head of some corporation was telling everyone where the line was and that was the line they were to follow.

That is how a dictatorship works, not a democracy. Most companies don’t work like that anymore, but our government thinks they can. What motion have they put forward that has been popular with voters? I have not been in agreement with virtually anything they’ve done since they’ve got in. Yet I put up with it. I, as a student, went through two strikes from what I recall. I remember when I got into the school system again with my kids, the shock about all the fundraising the PAC’s were doing to fund things that the school system provided when I was a kid.

Strong educational systems build strong societies with less crime and other social problems. One of the first things on the list for a developing country is to get an educational system. What are we doing? Ours is eroding and we, the parent, grandparents and society, are being too quiet. We are voters. We are a democracy. We have the ability to recall our MLAs and possibly vote them out and get our democracy back under control. I’m sure Christy Clark’s riding of Kelowna, who she promised a new bridge which has yet to be built, might be interested in this. Look through the Elections BC website under ‘Recall.’ Petitions can be drawn up and we have 60 days to gather the required number of signatures to cause the chief electoral officer to call a by-election.

Enough is enough, I don’t want this to continue to happen with our education system. We are a democracy, and if we don’t like something, we need to stand up and let them know as loudly as we can.

Sidney Couillard