Dear Editor:
Re: City teachers target MLAs, Burnaby NOW, Feb. 17
It is disgraceful that British Columbians are silent as the Liberal regime plans to commit the same crime that they perpetrated in 2002, when the former (Orwellian) education minister Christy Clark was "delighted" to illegally rip up my teachers' collective agreement and interrupt my schooling. This party evidently has a hatred for democracy and education and thus only negotiates with preconditions such as the "net-zero mandate," which is why there have been 70 fruitless sessions since this strike began. The tables are rigged by the dictators in power.
People with dignity should protest when the emperor, the current Education Minister George Abbott, with his new clothes, pronounces his "netzero mandate," unequivocally implying that politicians are above the law and that teachers have no right to be compensated for his party's unconstitutional (and humiliating) behaviour.
Of course, the hypocrisy isn't complete without Finance Minister Kevin Falcon's stunning irrationality and utter nonsense, who hopes the province's $3.1-billion deficit will pass by the population as a justification for applying double standards to the BCTF. Anyone who knows how to read will notice that nurses, school support staff, school superintendents and Crown corporation CEOs are not being imposed with such a mandate.
Elias Ishak, Burnaby
