Advice for Mark Carney as we head into an election
By Lethbridge Herald on March 20, 2025.
Editor,
An open letter to Mark Carney
As a senior let me welcome you to the world of politics. Like most people in my age group you provide a glimmer of hope for our country and we trust that you will not disappoint us. Let us assist you with a few tips that may make your journey a little easier. Starting with your campaign trail, try to remember the recent American elections and in particular the fatal mistake of Kamala Harris. If you recall, when conducting her campaign speeches, she had a tendency as an intellectualto talk over many peoples heads, whereas Trump appealed to the average blue collar population. When dealing with Pierre Poiievre, who will do nothing but call you names and disrespect you, do not allow him the pleasure of taking his bait.
Remember the conversation between Zelensky and Trump? After you form your government, make it a priority to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers. I would love to have the option of drinking Niagara or B.C. wines and eat their fruit, or buy P.E.I. or Alberta potatoes. A Canadian drivers licence (rather than provincial) would be a real treat, When going abroad it is difficult to explain that Alberta is not a country. Driver Education for Truckers and average Canadians should be of a high national standard. we should become a nation of builders and manufacturers rather than purchasers of American goods. We can build excellent planes, nuclear reactors, ships and armaments.
When I finished High School in the late 1950s there was a state of the art aviation plant in Brampton,ON that produced an aircraft called the AVRO Arrow. This plane was so sophisticated that it could probably still compete with an F18 fighter jet. But prime minister John Diefenbaker (conservative), in his wisdom, cancelled the Arrow program and shut down the plant. In order to sell Canadian products you need to improve our relations with countries like India and even China. They need our agricultural products and India is negotiating with the Americans on a nuclear reactor, a deal that OUR government should have made. Do not forget the Europeans as trading partners.
They are quickly running out of farm land and would probably love our agricultural products. In closing, as much as it hurts us financially, bring our NATO commitment up todate sooner rather than later.The procurement of the frigates is a good start but we really need an efficient ICBM defense system in Northern Canada; I think that our ancient, dilapidated tanks cannot quite cut it anymore.
Also try to trim our federal government to an efficient level, unlike Elon Musk, not with a “chainsaw but a scalpel”
Hart R. Born
Lethbridge
10-9
Great comments it doesn’t take much to be smarter than these Reformers trying to pretend they are conservatives when there is nothing conservative about them. Pierre Poilievre has to be one of the dumbest politicians us conservatives have ever seen repeating Trump word for word in his speeches and has never had an intelligent solution to any problem when reporters have questioned him. It’s always blame it on someone else.