Letter United Partydivisive politics or uniting force?

Dear Editor

Lately newspapers and other media are reporting about a new political party being organized in Saskatchewan.

They plan to be called the United Party but it seems to me they will do more dividing than uniting. They want to take their position as a right-centre party which, of course, we have in power right now.

They say they are in favour of small government, but will just make it bigger and cost more.

It seems this party was formed more or less as a protest against they way the COVID pandemic was handled by the Sask. Party. Nadine Wilson takes exception to Premier Scott Moe saying, “Things could get uncomfortable for those who refuse the vaccine.” Well, this is true and totally self-inflicted. We know some of those people got very ill and some died or continue to suffer serious after affects.

What would she and her party have done differently or better. What really bothers me is the party’s position on gun control.

They talk of using common sense. Does anyone really believe any private citizen in Canada should be allowed to carry a handgun or an AK-47 military assault weapon?

Don’t mass shootings, already 130 in the United States this year, and the murders of police officers and a woman in Canada tell us everything possible should be done to at least lessen this murder of innocent people? When we think of all the wars and suffering in our world we should just be thankful for our peaceful Canada and the people who serve us in police forces and the health care profession.

In my mind, a person elected should work together whoever is in government for the good of all the people he or she represents. This is the way rural, town and city councils operate. The change in government can happen peacefully as it should when the term of office is over.

Cornie Martens Rabbit Lake

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