Dear editor,
Thank you for your article on Ronna-Rae Leonard’s selection as candidate for the House of Commons, representing Vancouver Island North.
Seniors and other low-income people are finding it increasingly difficult to live within their incomes, especially as prices continue to rise.
It would help the general public enormously not to have to pay the regressive, unfair harmonized sales tax (HST), that Leonard would vote to repeal.
Those with fixed or low incomes in the Valley and North Island are struggling very hard to support themselves and families on what they can earn, even when both parents are working.
The HST was initiated by Stephen Harper and taken up by Gordon Campbell to take some of the tax burden off corporations in order to stimulate the economy.
Corporations whose CEOs make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year are far better able to afford such a tax than you and I are.
Betty Gidlof,
Courtenay