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Letter: Reflect what’s true for your vote

By Al Sullivan, Vancouver
Published: June 26, 2016, 6:00am

Is truth important any more? It seems that in politics these days it is a fading commodity, in both local and national. We all know “if it sounds too good to be true it most likely isn’t.” It follows that “if it sounds too wrong to be true it most likely is.”

I first came to Vancouver in the 1920s so I have seen a lot of good and bad. The bad times of the 1930s are still fresh in my mind, but it was a time when people helped each other and truth and civility prevailed.

I suggest that we listen to both sides of each political argument then decide if it sounds too good or too wrong to be true. I recommend we all vote for “true” in November.

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