Canada and Panama are sovereign nations
By Lethbridge Herald on March 19, 2025.
Editor,
An open letter to Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy
When the Alaska Permanent Fund was being established, I was asked to provide expert advice. At Alaska’s request, I travelled to Juneau. At the time, I was a Select Committee Member of the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund.
When America invaded Pana,a in 1989 and kidnapped its president, I was there providing economic development advice to the Panama Canal Commission. Now, the American President says the United Staes will “take back” the Canal. America never “had” the Canal. American engineers built the Canal Zone with Panama’s permission.
Panama and its canal are sovereign. And so is Canada!
Thank you for your resolution supporting our sovereignty. Let’s hope that the values symbolized by the Statue of Liberty — freedom, democracy and hope — remain steadfast in the face of whatever lies ahead. Is there anything I can do to help that happen, or to support your resolution?
Tom Sindlinger
Calgary
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treaties and agreements and laws are fa suckas…losers. at least based on how trump views the planet he now seems to have decided that he owns, simply by being president of the usa.
i am left to wonder how it is there is not a massive and ongoing protest in the usa, seeing as by now even the simplest folk should be well aware they have a dictator ruling their land.
Thats because they drank his koolaid. He hopes by repeating that Canada should become a US state enough times he hopes that like minded “Canadians” would agree or hope parts will splinter off.
My American Relatives certainly didn’t they weren’t that stupid. Too bad so many other were, isn’t it?
hi jim, i went looking, but was unable to substantiate, whether a letter published in the herald today is correct in stating that about 45% of federal con party supporters support trump.
what i did find, although now a bit of old news as this is from july 2024, is the following: “Support for Trump is highest among Conservative Party of Canada voters, with 55% of Conservative voters saying they’d vote for the 45th president.
Trump’s support is also higher among younger Canadians and men, compared to older Canadians and women.
Thirty-eight percent of Canadians 18-29 and 43% among Canadians aged 30-44 said they support Trump over Biden, while the same was true for just 23% of Canadians 60 to 69 and 17% of Canadians over the age of 70.
Trump’s support among Canadian men is 40%, and 28% among women.
Geographically, Trump is the most popular in Alberta, with 45% of Albertans saying they prefer Trump over Biden.” https://tnc.news/2024/07/03/poll-increased-support-trump-canadians/
i did just find this number relative to canada, posted feb 14/25: “Among Conservative supporters, 31% view Trump positively, while 48% hold negative views.” https://thedeepdive.ca/conservative-lead-holds-as-trump-concerns-shape-canadian-politics/
perhaps a study may find a link between drinking orange koolaid and a massive subdued reaction to, and an acceptance of, dictatorship and totalitarian principles.
I would add a lying, pompous, autocratic despot. And yes , why no more outcry from the public and particularly the Dems. Not a word even from Harris and other senior politicians.
In a word: pathetic!
While Danielle Smith and Pierre Poilievre think he’s a hero and can’t get enough of him and his extremist friends. While they help the rich get a lot richer Smith is making arrangements to screw Albertans out of a lot more Natural gas wealth as we learn and sell off our hospitals to her private -for -profit friends then rent them back at a huge cost to taxpayers. Then they wonder why Mark Carney has become so popular with Canadians who aren’t as stupid as them.
We can’t believe he hasn’t been shot and retired police officers we have spoken to agree. It’s sad to say but after seeing what’s happened to other Presidents it’s not surprising. He’s likely carrying a huge target on his back and will upset someone he shouldn’t. He is certainly asking for it, isn’t he?
not that i wish as an only solution that a vile actor should be shot, but, a look through our planet’s history suggests our worst actors do not get shot, at least not until well after they have wreaked their havoc and misery. then, on the other hand, how is the very many of our very finest beings do get assassinated?
Tom it’s no secret that Alaska adopted Lougheed’s Heritage Trust Fund ideas with their Alaska Permanent Fund only they were smart enough to run it properly which is why theirs is at $80 billion and they have paid every man, woman and child each $52,000. in total annual oil dividend cheques and ours is $21 billion and we have received a pathetic $1,000. Proving how stupid Albertans for allowing it to happen.
Lougheed told my parents that he intended to follow what they were doing in Alaska and every Albertan would start getting annual oil dividend cheques.
Too bad the idiots let these Reformers take over and destroy it? Want to bet most were seniors who could have used the money in their retirement. They hurled their sarcastic comments at us when we tried to point out what Klein was doing to us, that’s how stupid they were, and still are. It was seniors who gave Smith a second chance in Red deer we were told by seniors who were there, and were so disgusted by their actions.
One woman in Alaska told me she had over $250,000. saved up for her three children to use to go to University or buy a home when they were old enough to do so.