JUST MORE CONSERVATIVE SENSATIONAL RHETORIC

Re: Liberal policies provide addicts with drugs

Helena Guergis' latest missive to The Alliston Herald was another
classic example of her and the Conservative Party's sensationalistic
rhetoric.

As usual she can only point out the flaws of the Liberal Party while
offering the voting public nothing in the way of an
alternative.

To read her letter one would imagine that Paul Martin himself were
riding an ice-cream truck around Vancouver throwing bags of heroine to
all and sundry.

The pilot project in Vancouver is a very limited and small-scale
program with rigorous controls. It's purpose is not "to ensure no
heroine addict must go without" but rather an effort to find an
alternative to throwing offenders into a prison system that by all
accounts is better supplied with drugs than any place outside.

This letter was another perfect example of why the Conservative Party
was unable to defeat a battered opponent during the last election. If
the public is baying for change and your platform consists of
continuous criticism with no leadership or alternative, the best you
can hope for is to be the eternal opposition.

Dermot Barry-Murphy

Alliston