Questions needed

Editor:

The leaders of the G7 – USA, Germany, Japan, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Canada – will meet in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 26 and 27.

By then, newspapers and media analysts will most probably try to convince us they won’t all get along to well on major issues during this summit. But don’t get this wrong! They will all agree as thick as thieves, we can be sure, on everything that really matters:

• Letting the destiny of our world in the hands of rich people, banks and big corporations;

• Despoiling poor countries with a sophisticated set of economic, political and military measures to subdue them, stop their march towards democracy and justice and reduce their populations to poverty an obedience;

• Maintaining democracy in its embryonic state in rich countries and doing everything to stop it in the poorest countries, by private control of information and entertainment in the rich ones, by force and intimidation in the poorest ones;

• And at all cost, preventing the sharing of powers that would lead to real democracy, and thus to equality and justice.

I can already hear someone asking: But what can we do? Well, we can start by the beginning.

We can start talking with our friends and colleagues about things that matter for us: justice, fairness, democracy, and equality.

Questioning our world is certainly the first step and a huge step towards a better world. Bruno Marquis, Gatineau, Que.