Letters: Will Carney really govern 'for all Canadians?'
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It is now crystal clear: Canadians do not deserve a democracy. That form of government requires work on the part of its citizens. It needs to be nurtured by people who monitor it regularly, watched over by a robust, impartial media, brought to heel by organizations dedicated to preserving it, and, most importantly, have safety valves that release pressure when its dynamics start to take wrong turns.
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The Canadian electorate chose to ignore the past 10 years of constant alarm bells ringing in Ottawa, and through ignorance or apathy or the call of a pop-culture mindset have put in place the same incompetent, entitled people under the thumb of a hyper bureaucrat who is thought to be and thinks he is above everyone else intellectually, technically and ideologically.
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Canada is closer now than it ever was to becoming #51 because we failed to see what Justin Trudeau's post-national agenda was leading us to: Canada Inc., to be subsumed in a hostile (but non militaristic) takeover by Trump.
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To those who believe or say Canada isn't broken, the numbers say otherwise. Liberals generated an overwhelming amount of their support east of the Manitoba/Ontario border. West of that border, they generated just enough interest to justify calling them a rump political splinter group.
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Mark Carney says he'll govern 'for all Canadians,' but those words ring hollow. Justin Trudeau made the same promise three times and conveniently forgot what he said the moment he said it.
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The numbers show there's a huge East-West divide and it's clear that a lot of Canadians have little faith in Liberal promises. Suggesting he's going to govern for all Canadians, Carney is already mouthing standard boilerplate rhetoric. What else would he say?
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If Carney wants to bridge the divide, he should stop with the bromides and start creating change that involves the hopes and dreams of the alienated.
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As for Carney, he couldn't resist taking a jab at Alberta (and Saskatchewan) during his acceptance speech. Do I believe that he will do anything to help Alberta unlock its resource potential for the benefit of all Canadians? Or anything to build a pipeline to get Alberta oil to new markets? I don't, but apparently a lot of Canadians outside Alberta believe his assurances because they elected him. I guess those Canadians still believe in the tooth fairy, too.
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