‘An endorsement’?

Dear Editor:

The Conservative Party of Canada needs a leadership change as well as the Liberal Party. 

Leader Pierre Poilievre has solidly proven that he has no policies, or refuses to state them, and he has adopted the United States model by falsely stating that the sky is falling in Canada. This is to appeal to an emotional response that is not based on a real inventory of our present conditions. Who starts a political TV advertisement with an assault on a darkened street? 

Canada has watched the U.S. become what they used to call a Banana Republic and the majority of Canadians do not want to follow them. It boils down to blind greed and excludes compassion, morality, maintaining a civil society, justice for all and a inclusive world view.

Jonathan Schmidt’s letter to the editor (‘Ideological extremism,’ Jan. 9) illustrated Poilieves’s character very well.

I agree with his statement, “If Poilievre’s policies have merit, Canadians would be much better served by a thorough and honest presentation of them instead of his mudslinging rhetoric. Does Mr. Chong agree?”

Silence is an endorsement of Mr. Poilievre, Mr. Chong.

Thomas Althouse,
Fergus