Letters suggest NDP Leader Carla Beck is pandering to teachers for votes and that Regina needs a new pool.
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New Democrat Leader Carla Beck’s recent pre-election promise to invest $2 billion in the Saskatchewan education system is a blatant attempt to do one thing.
It’s an NDP strategy to buy off another public sector union voting bloc along with its enablers. May I remind you of all the school closures in rural areas the last time the last time NDP was in power? Historically, what the NDP has done with its election promises is divide and conquer various segments of our society.
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Carla Beck denounces the Federal Liberal/NDP alliance, yet the last time in power they did the same thing on a provincial level.
Recent history shows B.C., Alberta and Manitoba have tried NDP provincial governments, which has led voters there to instant buyer’s remorse. The damage done to those resource-based economies was devastating.
Simply put, the Saskatchewan NDP is the virtue-signalling friend that steals your wallet, then helps you look for it. We can’t afford to ever have them come back here.
Devin Malakoff, Regina
Council should take plunge on new pool
The Regina swimming community is a large one, including youth swim groups such as the Piranhas, Dolphins, Flatlanders, the Regina Cougars Swim Team and other groups, including artistic swimming, masters’ swimming, Special Olympics, triathlon training, diving and water polo.
Additionally, there are aquacise sessions offered twice per weekday, recreational lane swimmers, therapeutic water walkers, children’s swim lessons, lifeguard training sessions and recreational school groups. I may even have missed a few.
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City records show that the Lawson Aquatic Centre, constructed in 1975, is at 150 per cent capacity. Creative scheduling, with several user groups in different areas of the pools at one time, allow this to happen.
The aging Lawson needs significant, expensive upgrades and repairs to continue for another 10 years. This money should be allocated to the new aquatic centre.
City council has repeatedly put off making a decision on the pool, despite already having $128.1 million in guaranteed funding: $51,274,614 from the federal government; $42,724,573 from the provincial government; and $34,187,349 from the city.
It should be easy to get sponsorship funding from private business — the oil and gas sector and those involved with geothermal heating being two possibilities, because the pool uses exactly the same technology and professional expertise.
But no entity or individual will come forward to fund a project that has not received final approval. In the meantime, inflation causes costs to to go higher. Our city needs a new aquatic centre to meet the needs of the swimming and water sport community and as a venue for water sport competition.
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Come on Regina city council, let’s move on this!
Loanne Myrah, Regina
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