At the NIC all-candidates' meeting on April 13, MIke Holland stated that the purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as the next generation fighter aircraft is 鈥渞idiculous.鈥�

One of the political parties, the Conservative Party under the leadership of Stephen Harper, have shown they do not have the same regard for those principles of democracy. Mr Harper, even by present standards of political micro-managing, controls his party and his minority government with an iron fist.

I am saddened by the Under The Glacier cartoon that appeared in your April 8 issue.

Is anyone else getting tired of hearing about halibut?

In December 2010, I was involved in an altercation with the employees at Gulliver鈥檚 Pub in Courtenay. I was intoxicated at the time.

Irrespective of what the other parties may or may not do regarding a coalition, Conservative MP John Duncan must speak to his constituents as fair-minded adults, and not as children so easily frightened.

In your story April 7, Hornet joins Snowbirds to buzz around valley, we are introduced to the CF18 national demonstration team.

Should people in Courtenay be dismayed about living in only the 93rd-best city in Canada or glad about being rated above 87 others?

As campaign manager for Jason Draper, I was extremely disappointed with the organizers of the North Island College debate.

Dear editor, Earlier in April, there was an article in the Record which made mention of the legal costs of the Supreme Court action initiated by several past and present trustees and administrative staff of the Union Bay Improvement District against a landowner in that community.