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Letter: Story's bias pushes young voters towards socialism

The Editor, Re. "‘ We don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines. We’re being politicized by the conditions of our time ’" (The Tri-City News, Sept. 26).
Douglas College student volunteer Jerson Sabio, 20, looks on as a list of student-generated voting i
Douglas College student volunteer Jerson Sabio, 20, looks on as a list of student-generated voting issues ticks across a screen at Coquitlam's Douglas College.

The Editor,

Re. "‘We don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines. We’re being politicized by the conditions of our time’" (The Tri-City News, Sept. 26).

Reporter Stefan Labbé's story on young voters is a poorly veiled attempt to urge students to vote socialist in the upcoming election.

The quoted disclaimer that the organizers of the program are not telling the young whom to vote for is openly belied by the various politically correct code words that keep recurring as predictably as rain in El Niño, including “affordability,” “education costs,” “housing,” etc., and, of course, all the usual “burning planet” hyperbole.

(By the way, did The Tri-City News take any note of our remarkably clear, smoke-free skies this last summer despite the long hot weather and the Vancouver Sun’s gloomy opinion just last year that orange suns will probably be a fact of Lower Mainland life from now on?)

So, yes, there's no obvious bias in the program — or in the reporter. Vote for whomever you like, young people, just so long as they're Liberal, NDP or Green.

Gordon Tryon, Coquitlam