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Every few hundred years when the world is in desperate need of a courageous visionary leader, one such leader suddenly appears from the shadows and takes charge on the world stage. With vigour and determination, he proclaims a new world order must be constructed and the old order pushed aside. His vision is presented through carefully crafted speeches to enthusiastic and adoring audiences and by visiting foreign leaders. Middle powers would come together to create a new hegemony in Europe, one that would include Canada and rival other world powers. How fortunate Canadians are to be included as part of this new world order and to have this once-in-a-lifetime leader leading us forward to complete oblivion.
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BERNARD A. MOYLE, Aurora, Ont.
(Carney is keen to impress the Europeans with his speechifying on new world orders and other such meaningless things while Canadians are struggling daily to make ends meet)
Tax fairness
A flat tax is fairer than a progressive tax. In reality a progressive tax punishes middle class people who work more to try and get ahead while rewards people who don’t want to work. We just need governments to spend less and understand the meaning of the word budget.
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RYAN WALKER
(All on where you set the rate and/or the tax brackets.)
Weakness shown
The Pretender, namely PM Carney, with a manufactured majority until 2029. This former banker got elected with bold promises for Canada not one fulfilled in over a year. Ignoring Trump and America to eliminate tariffs for important manufacturing sectors in Canada shows his weakness, certainly not his bravado he ran on. Now what, look to sister Europe as the solution now? Unfortunately, Europe is only the 10% financial solution, while America is Canada’s 100% trade partner solution.
DARYL COTE
(If only there was some way to make another country remove its tariffs.)
At your own risk…
(Re: ‘Another person charged by bear in Kananaskis,’ calgarysun.com) Hello people, it’s time to wake up and smell the morning coffee brewing. Anyone who ventures into the backcountry automatically becomes an intruder in bear country. Enter at your own risk.
DONALD K. MUNROE, Three Hills
(Never hurts to have a reminder to be bear-aware when you’re venturing out)
Liberal plan
(Re: ‘Countries running out,’ Letters to the Editor, Sun, May 8) With respect to M. Mallow’s comments, the world riding bikes is the Liberal New World Order plan, or have you missed the last 10 years? Bike lanes not used most of the time, bus lanes empty, and tax gas so lower incomes can’t afford it. All while Liberal elites fly all over the world on pointless trips, and drive in Suburbans rather than small EVs. Canada has decades worth of oil that could alleviate this and produce a strategic reserve, but Trudeau and Carney won’t do it. I support the oilsands.
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ED SMITH, Halifax
(Hopefully the situation surrounding Hormuz is settled in short order)
Alberta being ignored
It has been reported that Premier Smith asked PM Carney to appoint someone from Alberta as the new governor general. Smith’s plea was ignored, and who did Canadians get? Louise Arbour, the epitome of the Laurentian elite and stalwart progressive and Liberal party insider. Which leads us to Alberta’s constitutional referendum questions that’ll take place this October. Any attempt on constitutional reforms that have taken place in the past shows Albertans they’re dead on arrival. The 2021 referendum results on Equalization were ignored and dismissed by the central Canadian establishment and political structure. What makes Premier Smith think it’ll be different this time around?
JEFFREY ANDERSON
(She’s giving it the ol’ college try)
Democracy no more
(Re: Editorial — ‘Senate’s fatal flaw: It isn’t democratic,’ Sun, April 25) In regard to the editorial headline, truer works were never spoken. The Senate, formerly called the Chamber of Sober Second Thought, has become the Chamber of Liberal Thought with its Liberal majority. Justin Trudeau loaded up the Senate with Liberal supporters, then called them ‘independents,’ and in so doing he has basically destroyed the original purpose of the institution. Autocrat Mark Carney now controls the Senate, the federal courts, which Trudeau also loaded up with Liberal supporters, much of the MSM that he funds, and the RCMP, and will likely soon have control of all parliamentary committees, too, thereby silencing opposition parties. Democracy no longer exists in Canada. Power-hungry Carney even manufactured a majority!
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LARRY COMEAU, Ottawa
(Piecing together a majority without an election was cynical, even by today’s political standards)
Don’t reveal our cards
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants our Prime Minister Mark Carney to reveal to Canadians and of course the rest of the world his “leverage plans” before he and his team negotiate trade deals with the USA. How naive and ignorant is that? It’s like telling other people in a poker game what your hidden cards are, pretty much guaranteeing your loss or “letting the cat out of the bag.” I sure would like to play poker with Poilievre! He should criticize Carney after the trade deals are made and not before.
R. MOSKAL
(These are vital trade talks; we need concrete plans)
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