Dear Editor:
This is not about 20/20 hindsight. This is a straight forward, "I told you so."
In all fairness, I did not really tell you so. And, being completely honest, my wife had a lot more to say than I did. She was the one who was robbed of her lifetime membership in the B.C. Conservative Party for speaking out.
A few of us had seen how the leadership of John Cummins would lead to a dead end. How wrong were we? Let's pose the question this way, how many of last year's top Cummins supporters are still supporters now?
Nobody could have foreseen the complete meltdown of the B.C. Liberal Party. But it was totally predictable that many Liberal MLAs would have to look for a new home/umbrella organization. Their only other options were to run as independents or step out of politics for a while.
Yet Cummins and his misguided advisors turned their backs on the first group of Christy Clark's defectors. Even the only sitting Conservative MLA, Mr. John van Dongen was snubbed and had no choice but to leave in order to preserve his dignity.
Regardless of the outcome of Clark's emergency meeting, an open door and a gesture of welcome by John Cummins six months ago would have made a great deal of difference to the free enterprise movement in B.C.
Cummins and his board of choice missed a great opportunity to change B.C. history.
Ziggy Eckardt, Burnaby
