In defence of honesty in politics, Allan Gregg thinks former prime minister Kim Campbell was "morally right" if "politically wrong" to say that unemployment would remain high for the rest of the decade (No Laughing Matter -- May 21.) He is wrong on at least two counts.
First, "moral" is hardly the right word to describe acceptance of double-digit unemployment. Voters in 1993 may not have expected miracles, but they clearly rejected Conservative indifference to the jobs crisis masquerading as honesty in politics. Second, it took far too long, but unemployment in fact declined very significantly from 1993 to 2000.