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Dear Editor, The Liberal Party is seeking a new leader and a new image. Forget the past, they say. Canadians have long memories when it comes to fraud. Not one of the leadership candidates has offered an apology to Canadians for the corruption that permeated the Liberal party over the past 15 years. No one has mentioned the awful crisis we all face today because of Liberal policy. Without a public debate or a referendum, the Liberal government of the day accepted the Constitution Act of 1982, which included the Charter of Rights. It was an insult to all Canadians who accepted the English common law at the time of Confederation in 1867. With a stroke of a pen the Charter became the ultimate constitutional law superseding all the conventions, precedents, customs and traditions of our unwritten constitution. It did not grant one freedom Canadians did not already possess. It destroyed the checks and balances which evolved over centuries to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual. The rights and freedom of the individual now take second place to the freedoms of groups of people, and the federal government can grant special benefits to various groups based on race, creed, or culture. The fallout from Liberal policies has created crisis after crisis, which leaves animosity in its wake that may never be resolved. Canadians have become a race of litigants. We no longer have the right to private property, which has always been a cornerstone of a free and democratic nation. The rights of the criminal take precedent over the rights of the victim. Long, involved court cases, which allow appeal after appeal and finally plea bargaining, have denigrated our legal system. Our justice system is no longer just. Our police forces find it difficult to do their job. Liberal policies with respect to Indian Affairs has condemned the average aboriginal person on the reservation to an archaic system which has never worked and which will eventually cause unrest and conflict in what was once a peaceful, tolerant nation. The power of Parliament has been curtailed. Appointed judges who are accountable to no one now have the power to overrule Parliament and write their own law ignoring the standards and precepts of our common law. Many have become political activists. The Prime Minister has become a virtual dictator who runs the nation through the PMO without the consent of Parliament. All this is the legacy the Liberal Party has left to Canada. Let's hear what the Liberal leadership candidates have to say about these issues. John I. Fisher North Battleford, SK
