You, sir, criticize Mr. Draper for speaking what most common people feel is truths that need to be brought out into the open. Yet you seemingly find fault with truth and your demeaning attitude directed at Mr. Draper is less than noble. Your perverse ranting sounds more like uncalled for politicking than concern for the hurting people of this region and should be left to the period when elections are being held. You speak of employment as if you are/were an expert on the subject quoting statistics that are so far off the realm of reality that one wonders what planet you are on.

Reality, sir, in the early 1950s manufacturing employed approximately 70-75 per cent of the working population and service employed approximately 25-30 per cent. It has now been reversed with 70-75 per cent of our people forced to accept low-paying service employment while well-paying factory jobs and factories are being relocated to China, Mexico and a host of other southeast Asian countries. All for the "bottom line and increased profit" for the elite at the expense of Canadians willing to work.

You speak of medicare as if you invented this wonderful social program and you feel that Stephen Harper will assure that it will survive the onslaught of privatization.

Sir, I do not share your brainwashed and/or brainwashing ideas for the same Stephen Harper was in the late 1990s the leader of Colin Brown's National Citizens Coalition. A secret association that in the early '60s was devoted to preventing the implementation of Canada's cherished Health Care Act and also the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board. The old saying is, "Leopards rarely change their spots."

It might be wise to remember, "Sometimes a smart man is a man who keeps his views to himself and does not allow his arrogance to illustrate his ignorance."

Joseph A. Somers

Welland