Since MP Mike Kelloway has not publicly answered this letter to the editor, today we will send it out to both MPs Kelloway and Battiste. These two MPs continue to ignore this subject probably under the orders of their Liberal Party. How long will we continue to allow these two men to ignore the people and their concerns? This community continues to suffer from a of lack of political representation on the most serious issue we have ever faced. Equalization is provided to this province for all to benefit from but that is not happening and political party corruption is allowing this problem to continue. Here is the letter sent today by email: Dear MPs Mike Kelloway and Jaime Battiste, What is most disturbing is the deafening silence from the both of you for the disingenuous responses and the completely intentionally misleading information by the federal government regarding its accountability for the federal Equalization program. The federal government’s role has been completely irresponsible and noncompliant constitutionally with the Constitution Act, 1982. As both of you are well aware, this federal program is completely 100 percent a federal program. It is paid for from federal taxes from all Canadian taxpayers. As both of you are well aware, too, the provinces could do absolutely nothing about the federal government’s cancellation of the scheduled 5-year 2018 discussion session regarding these federal Equalization transfers. The federal government simply told the provinces this was not going to happen until the year 2023. This control of the federal Equalization program was confirmed further by professor/economist Dr. Trevor Tombe, University of Calgary and research fellow at the School of Public Policy in a CBC news report. Dr. Tombe stated the Equalization program is a “100 percent federal program.” He also added further, “The provinces have no role in terms of the design and implementation of that program.” https://www.cbc.ca/.../jason-kenney-equalization-payments... Yet, responses from federal elected representatives state that the federal responsibility ends upon the transfers to the provinces. Pontius Pilate would greatly appreciate such a betrayal! The federal government then adds that the citizens must hold the provincial governments accountable. This is completely dishonest on the part of the federal government and an impossible political task for the citizens, which the federal government intended when it transfers these Equalization transfers without conditions, which also totally ignores its constitutional commitment pursuant to s.36. The federal government knows fully-well these Equalization transfers have been and are still politically manipulated by every provincial government of Nova Scotia - even after this constitutional commitment was enshrined in the Constitution in 1982. The federal government knows these Equalization transfers are intentionally hidden-away from any accountability and transparency for the citizens of Nova Scotia, when every provincial government has deliberately placed these Equalization transfers in the General Revenues specifically to avoid any accountability to their citizens. The federal government is fully-aware and equally complicit as an accomplice to this constitutional betrayal, which has contributed to all of the provincial governments’ refusal to produce any transparency or accountability to its citizens. The citizen-unexpected constitutionally unintended consequences of this betrayal is that five (5) towns, so far, have politically died being forced through the dissolution process. Many other rural municipal governments and the province’s second largest regional municipal government (CBRM) are financially struggling, too, because of this deliberate noncompliance with the Constitution Act, 1982. Both of you are fully-cognizant of these constitutional illegalities and have chosen to remain silent. That makes both of you guilty of this crime against the citizens who have confided their trust in both of you to honestly represent their interest. Both of you, to date, have not done so! What have both of you to say to the citizens of this community in response to these allegations against the both of you? Yours truly, Charles W. Sampson & NSEF Members