Dear Editor:

Digging into one's past is getting exponentially easier every year and the amount of information that can be gathered each year is also growing exponentially and the means of transmitting this information to others is also increasing exponentially every year. We all have to adjust to that.

One should always look at the person today, their current professed views and their actions. If their past actions conflict with that current assessment then it is only a head-scratcher. 

However if one's professed views and actions today are in doubt, then it is fairer to look back for confirmation evidence. (What puts one's views in doubt is if they refuse to answer or equivocate.)

We might do better to leave personalities out of it, easy to say, hard to do.

Bill Moses
Owen sound