Dear Editor:
How do we, as Canadians, put up with the incompetence of our federal government, day after day, week after week? It really is astonishing.
This is beyond party lines. If things would not be tolerated say, for former PM Stephen Harper (he was shown the door by votes), then why are they acceptable now under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s reign?
Is it because PM Trudeau has such great hair? Is it because he is more photogenic and supposedly personable? Surely it isn’t because of his supreme intellect or better yet, his great acting chops?
Listen to former Liberal cabinet member Dan McTeague or Liberal Party President Stephen LeDrew. Even they do not recognize the party they once held dear.
Ask Celine Ceasar-Chevanne or Jody Wilson-Raybould on what an incredible feminist Mr. Trudeau is … his behaviour to those two capable outstanding women who dared defy him would have sent any other male on “the hill” packing.
We now stand 23rd on a list of countries receiving COVID-19 vaccines, behind Malta and even Serbia.
We just had a (first ever in Canada’s history) debacle regarding our Governor General Julie Payette, because of a slack vetting process (because the non-partisan one put in place by Harper was turfed).
WE has not been dealt with.
The bulging debt load and any explanation or accountability whatsoever on how 14, 15 and 16 year olds received CERB whilst living at home and a parent still receiving family allowance simultaneously boggles the mind.
SNC Lavelin has been swept under the carpet. Canadians’ civil liberties are being stripped. Censorship is running rampant.
Best of all, why is our parliament not up and running? I mean full on running. Rent an arena, have it sprayed down after each session. There must be a better means to the gong show we are now witnessing daily. Not even during WWII, with the threat of bombs dropping on their heads, did Parliament cease in the UK.
It is most definitely time for a re-set. Not the re-set that our PM is talking of, but of a re-set for accountability, integrity and above all, honesty. We are receiving none.
Delsie Drover,
Belwood