EDITOR:
Your story “Poverty question draws sharp rebuke,” seems to have missed the essential point to the reported interchange in the legislature. Both the headline and the focus of the story itself are off target.
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Here are the bare bones of the exchange the story describes: Tina Mundy, Liberal minister, accused an opposition MLA of misleading Islanders. The minister was shown to be wrong. The minister was informed by her party’s House Leader that she “can’t say that.” The minister offered to withdraw her accusation.
The ‘sharpness’ of the minister’s rebuke was the focus of the headline and the leading paragraph of the story, but it is entirely beside the point. The point is the ill-considered inaccuracy of her rebuke and her apparent ignorance of parliamentary procedure and her own government’s reports.
Doug Millington,
Charlottetown
