LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA JUSTIN TRUDEAU
I cannot say how disheartening it was to learn that a lovely
family from Sri Lanka who had lived for five years in Quebec was deported.
This family represents exactly the kind of migrants we need
and want. They are industrious, intelligent, speak both of our national
languages, and all had managed to fit in well where they lived. I don’t care
about the technical details of their migrant history, they were exactly the
kind of immigrants we should seek. Sending them away is shameful.
I have to say Prime Minister Trudeau is such an immense
disappointment. I cannot imagine why he allowed this to happen.
But there have been a number of things from Mr. Trudeau that
I cannot understand. Major arms sales to the killers of women and children in
Saudi Arabia was sure one of them. If you preach to China about human rights,
why on earth are the truly awful princes of Saudi Arabia an exception?
Sending troops and tanks to Europe also was regrettable act because
the entire American establishment’s focus on Russia today is not based on any
principle beyond keeping itself primary in Europe. We don’t have to give that a
vote of confidence. What is going on is unnecessary and dangerous.
Mr. Trudeau’s complete turnaround on ballot reform was a
major disappointment. He had campaigned strongly for it, and I took an interest
because a couple of years ago I wrote Mr. Trudeau in Parliament and suggested
that ballot reform should be a top issue.
Again, we had an outstanding person as Minister of Foreign
Affairs in Mr. Dion, the kind of person I feel represents Canada and its values
handsomely. But Mr. Trudeau dismissed this excellent and thoroughly decent man.
Mr. Trudeau’s appointment of Chrystia Freeland as Minister
of Foreign Affairs is the closest he has come to aping Stephen Harper. She was
a terrible choice, a clearly biased person, an unsympathetic person, a person
whose tone frequently reminds me of some of the unpleasant Harperite
appointments.
Well, all I can say is that I see mainly the
superficialities of a politically-correct “niceness’ from this government,
photo-ops and sound-bites, and remarkably little of the sweat and toil of
working for what is principled and important, and I am sorry that that is so.
