Oct 16, 2003, 1:46 a.m.

Danny Williams expects that he will win this election because he is "Danny Williams". Why else would every single campaign sign say 'A Member Of The Danny Williams Team'?

He has repeatedly refused to debate issues in public. Why will he not debate post secondary education or insurance reform? What does he have to hide?

As a student, that will soon be graduating, the PC party has not made one policy that catches my attention. They have talked about the problem of out migration but have failed to offer any other options or incentives to stay.

The Liberals are at least offering a $100,000 tax break. The PC’s have also proposed cuts at Memorial University.

I can tell you first hand that there is nothing extravagant at Memorial. The majority of our labs have been using the same equipment since the 1960’s. I guess we could cut back on the replacement vacuum tubes.

The problems facing each party are the same. The royalties from our resources are virtually non existent. The health care system is in trouble. Education is suffering. And the list goes on.

Does any party really think that they have a better chance than the other of making these things better? I agree that each party will take a different approach and may be able to fix some problems but new ones will be created. In the end we need the federal government to be on our side. We need more of the royalties from our resources.

The NDP is the only party that actually has support from their federal counterparts.

You could very easily spend hours discussing the issues surrounding Newfoundland and this election but, barring some exceptional changes, I think that in the end the conclusion is the same. A PC government lead by Danny Williams will be bad news.

- Ed Sharpe Jr., Portugal Cove-St. Philip's

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