Dear Editor:
Wake up, Canada. Call me an alarmist but I woke up one night in a cold sweat with the thought of a dystopian scenario in my head. What if president-elect Donald Trump tore a page out of history and followed in Vladimir Putin’s footsteps and invaded his resource-rich neighbour to the north?
Impossible, you say? But who would stop him? Our woefully undermanned and ill equipped army forces? Our disarmed populace?
Now Trump’s rhetoric has turned to calling our prime minister a governor of the “state” of Canada. Oh, he was only joking! What if he and his cabal are not joking?
His close associates from his first term in office have warned us that he is not fit to hold office. Trump has publicly stated that he plans to prosecute his political opponents and rule as a dictator on day one of his presidency.
Is no one listening? Am I the little boy in the crowd saying that the emperor has no clothes?
That said, I wish everyone a merry Christmas. It may be our last for years to come.
Robert Sevigny,
Centre Wellington