What a hullabaloo! Here we have a so-called democratic country allowing the installation of an unelected individual (Mark Carney) as the new “prime minister” of Canada. Something like this would never happen in the United States.
Canadian soldiers in the last world war very resolutely and courageously fought to uphold and embrace the cherished freedoms of democracy. It is very sad, but today Canada has lost the resolve to maintain and support an adequately sized military force. We have farmed out our dirty work.
The wise American President Abraham Lincoln, who was self-educated by the way, had a short but very effective saying on democracy. He simply described democracy as being “of the people, by the people and for the people.”
So, for the 29 million eligible Canadian voters who absolutely had no say in the installation of this latest prime minister, maybe it is time we had a wakeup call. I just cannot fathom that we in the not-too-distant future could naively relinquish our historic, well-fought freedoms.
Gerald Klassen
Prince George
