‘Plausible deniability is rampant’
Re: Whether the Liberals winked at China’s helpful election meddling is the lingering question, John Ivison, March 1; Chinese interference shows Trudeau can’t run a functioning government, Editorial, March 4
John Ivison suggests that what matters is whether the prime minister knew about the alleged Chinese interference or not. Plausible deniability is rampant. If the PM didn’t know, the government is dysfunctional. If he did, he’s giving us the fuddle duddle, again. This should be about moral character, not ethics, which Trudeau and his minions clearly have issues with. You can’t teach ethics to unethical people.
Paul Baumberg, Dead Man’s Flats, Alta.
My nominations for the next round of Order of Canada awards would be the CSIS whistleblowers (should they ever be identified) who made Canadians aware of China’s electoral interference.
John P.A. Budreski, Vancouver
Joe Biden is no friend of Canada
Re: White House confirms first state visit to Canada by U.S. President Joe Biden in March, Bryan Passifiume, Jan. 10
As Canadians, we are unwaveringly polite and always welcome visitors to our country.
But make no mistake, Joe Biden is no friend of Canada!
On his first day as president, he cancelled a pipeline approval, an arrangement that would have been good for people and companies of both his and our countries. The expanded supply of oil would have gone far in securing energy self-sufficiency at home in North America and in support of exports to other parts of the world in need of petroleum products.
He has waffled on other energy-related matters and on trade policies contained in the pact between Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A. that is barely three years old.
In more recent days, the attention he has given to his Inflation Reduction Act (and other programs) means Canada, along with most other countries around the world, will be shut out of contracts and incentives for many manufacturing and supply ventures in the United States.
U.S. presidents used to make Canada their first foreign stop, mostly because we have been friends, allies and good neighbours forever, well at least since 1815. Not this president!
In more than two years of his term, we have fallen behind the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Vatican City, Italy, Poland, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Spain, Israel, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mexico and Ukraine as places he has chosen to visit. That surely shows where we rank in his thoughts.
We should, by all means, smile and shake his hand as he drops in. But he should not be treated to a major fete or offered a forum to address Canadians or our elected representatives in the House of Commons, at large or elsewhere. Those kinds of favours need to be “restricted” (yes, we can do that, too) only to friends.
Pearson James, Langford, B.C.
‘A clear example of anti-Palestinian racism’
Re: The West keeps subsidizing the Palestinian Authority’s death culture, Avi Benlolo, March 3
Avi Benlolo conflates all acts of Palestinian resistance under the rubric of “terror attacks,” whether they involve acts of violence against civilians or throwing rocks at Israeli military jeeps. What is more alarming however is his claim that the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA are “inculcating generations of Palestinian children to be venerated as ‘martyrs’ for mass murders,” and his implication that a “death culture” is pervasive in Palestinian society. This dehumanizing generalization of Palestinians as a group and labelling them with a “death culture” slander is more than inflammatory and a clear example of anti-Palestinian racism.
Michael Bueckert, V-P, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
Waiting for an answer about meeting with far-right politician
Re: Three Conservative MPs who met with far-right German politician will stay in caucus, March 6
Three Conservative MPs met with Christine Anderson, a member of the Alternative for Germany party that’s been accused of downplaying the Nazi era and minimizing the Holocaust. When asked about the meeting, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre instead called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a racist who once wore blackface at a party. That’s like a student called up for misbehaviour who says to the teacher, “Jimmy done that too!”
Those of us whose families suffered under the Nazis are waiting for a better answer.
Reiner Jaakson, Oakville, Ont.
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