Letters: NDP should move on from irrelevant Harrison gun incident

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Regarding recent articles on the saga of Speaker Randy Weekes and Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison: Opposition NDP strategists need to abandon a weak case with very thin allegations. Instead of this intellectual and moral bankruptcy, they should offer solutions-driven alternatives to real problems.

The public doesn’t want to waste time and energy on expensive, irrelevant committee hearings. They want solutions to daily issues. A recession could hit the rest of Canada soon. Weekes linked an eight-year-old hunting event to his current paranoia.

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The NDP did not call for Weekes’ firing. Not applying the same moral standards on both politicians is wrong and unethical. Harrison resigned from his government house leader duties. The NDP could have simply said: “Let’s fix the issue with better security protocols.”

Governments and governments-in-waiting must show decisiveness and solutions and not waste time and energy on committees.

Harrison’s workload with four large departments is equivalent to that of a CEO. With that workload,  having a brain fart and failing to remember a quick stop at the building could easily be forgiven and forgotten.

Premie Scott Moe was correct in loyally defending an obviously competent and capable minister achieving stellar results in foreign trade and solving labour market conditions. We all need to move forward and plan for great election campaigns.

Michael Lee, Regina

Trump spurns Christian teachings

Donald Trump’s faithful followers who call themselves Christian — notably Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene — need to do a major moral rethink on the fundamental values taught and practised by Jesus Christ.

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Jesus fundamentally was about non-violence, genuine compassion and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous wealth in the midst of poverty.

He clearly would not tolerate the accumulation of tens of billions of dollars by individual people — especially while so many others go hungry and homeless.

While there are many Christians who have rejected Donald Trump and his politics (though mostly quietly), there  remains a vocal and politically active “Christian” element celebrating Trump conservatism.

Too many adherents of institutional Christianity. Those “Christians” tend to insist upon creating their creator’s nature in their own fallible and often angry, vengeful image; for example, proclaiming  “God hates” such-and-such group of people.

Often being the most vocal, they make very bad examples of Christ’s fundamental message — especially to the young and impressionable.

Or perhaps it could be that many followers of such “Christianity” find it inconvenient —  if not plainly annoying — to reconcile the conspicuous inconsistency in the New Testament’s Jesus with the wrathful, vengeful and jealous nature of the Old Testament’s Creator.

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Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock, B.C.

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