Re: 鈥渟a国际传媒 voters turn down proportional representation, support first-past-the-post,鈥� Dec. 21.
Having devoted $14.5 million to an abortive attempt to fundamentally change our provincial electoral system, only to find that political stunt to have failed miserably, perhaps the leaders of the New Democratic and Green parties might soon be given a lesson in the laws governing election expenses.
One hopes that someone with time and money on their hands will be prompted to bring this latest caper, which was designed clearly to give political advantage to the Green and New Democratic parties, before the courts to ensure that all the expenses are apportioned between the parties over the next general elections, until the full amount has been repaid into the provincial exchequer.
While on the subject of public expenditure, the foolish waste of public funds should be countered by new legislation at both municipal and provincial levels to counter the iconoclastic tendencies of revisionist historians working in public office.
Ralph Smith
Victoria
