Dear Editor:
RE: Started with Harper, Jan. 7.
I would like to say thank you for bringing to my attention that it was the Harper government that initiated training exercises with the Chinese Communist Party. I am not impressed with either; not the Conservative Party nor the Liberal Party.
This “bill” could have been vetoed like so many other initiatives that PM Justin Trudeau found distasteful, but it wasn’t until our “two Michaels” had been kidnapped by China that our Canadian Armed Forces cancelled any further training, much to PM Trudeau’s chagrin.
Training did occur contrary to what Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan stated. Minister Sajjan, apparently an exemplary military man, has made the odd false statement as well. Sajjan proclaimed – and later retracted and apologized – that he “engineered” the Canadian-led NATO offensive against the Taliban during the Afghan War, the largest such operation in decades. This was false.
All parties need to be truthful and transparent. So does every journalist and news outlet. Just the facts ma’am (and sir) … just the facts.
They owe this to every Canadian.
Delsie Drover,
Belwood