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Letter: Is BC Liberals pre-election spending spree all bad?

"May I ask why our media seem to always take issue with announcements of government investments on the eve of an election?" says the letter writer.
Tri-City News
ERH announcement
Dr. Mike Mostrenko, head of the Eagle Ridge emergency department, at the press conference last Wednesday announcing a $27.6-million expansion of the ER.Tri-City News file

The Editor,

Re. “BC Liberals sprinkling funding in the Tri-Cities” (The Tri-City News, March 31).

May I ask why our media seem to always take issue with announcements of government investments on the eve of an election?

Should residents of the Tri-Cities be sorry that we’re getting an Eagle Ridge Hospital emergency room expansion, support for new rental homes, funding for search and rescue and a replacement in Coquitlam for the Burnaby Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre for Youth, among other things?

If an impending election prompts these positive decisions, can that be all bad? I don’t think so.

Jim Peacock, Port Moody