Letters: NDP should put irrelevant Harrison gun incident behind it

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Regarding the recent articles about the saga surrounding Speaker Randy Weekes and Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison: The strategists of the opposition NDP must abandon a weak argument with very flimsy accusations. Instead of this intellectual and moral bankruptcy, they should offer solution-oriented alternatives to real problems.

The public doesn’t want to waste time and energy on expensive, irrelevant committee hearings. They want solutions to everyday problems. A recession could soon hit the rest of Canada. Weekes linked his current paranoia to a hunting incident eight years ago.

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The NDP did not call for Weekes’s dismissal. It is wrong and unethical not to hold both politicians to the same moral standards. Harrison resigned as government leader. The NDP could have simply said, “Let’s solve the problem with better safety protocols.”

Governments and governments-designate must show determination and propose solutions and not waste time and energy in committees.

Harrison’s workload, with four major departments, is that of a CEO. With that kind of workload, a lapse in concentration and forgetting to make a quick stop in the building could easily be forgiven and forgotten.

Premier Scott Moe was right to loyally defend an obviously competent and capable minister who was delivering excellent results on foreign trade and improving the labour market. We all need to look forward and plan great election campaigns.

Michael Lee, Regina

Trump rejects Christian teachings

Donald Trump’s loyal followers who call themselves Christians – especially Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia – must fundamentally rethink their moral principles regarding the core values ​​taught and practiced by Jesus Christ.

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Jesus essentially stood for nonviolence, genuine compassion, and the avoidance of wealth. His teachings and practices embody so much of the key component of socialism: do not hoard unearned wealth in the midst of poverty.

He obviously would not tolerate individual citizens amassing tens of billions of dollars – especially while so many others are suffering from hunger and homelessness.

Although many Christians oppose Donald Trump and his policies (albeit mostly quietly), there continues to be a vocal and politically active “Christian” group that celebrates Trump’s conservatism.

Too many adherents of institutional Christianity. These “Christians” tend to insist on creating their Creator’s nature in their own fallible and often angry, vengeful image. For example, they proclaim that “God hates this or that group of people.”

They are often the most vocal advocates of their views and set a very poor example of the fundamental message of Christ, especially for young and impressionable people.

Or perhaps it is because many adherents of this “Christianity” find it uncomfortable—if not downright annoying—to reconcile the glaring inconsistency between the Jesus of the New Testament and the angry, vengeful, and jealous nature of the Creator of the Old Testament.

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Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock, BC

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