Childish complaints from Trudeau critics

Dear Editor:

For a while during this pandemic, I naively thought that the vicious political sniping had reached a truce, especially in the letters section, in which a group of angry citizens with too much time on their hands spend a lot of time attacking various governments.

I realized I was wrong after reading Thursday’s Daily Courier with its poison pen letter from someone who seems to have a pathological hatred for the Trudeau government. That kind of mindless rhetoric belongs with the ultra-right folks south of the border, not in Canada.

Justin Trudeau may have done a few stupid things in the past; however he and his cabinet members appear, at least to me, to be demonstrating the sort of reasonable and rational leadership we need and deserve. Writing about “cronies slithering” and other examples of childish name-calling is, in my humble opinion, extremely unhelpful at a time of great worldwide difficulty and disorientation when we should all be standing together (two metres apart).

Everyone is entitled to their opinion in our free society and I’ve respected opposing opinions up to now.

However, this garbage about criminal acts and slithering has finally prompted this response. For heaven’s sake, face up to the fact that your chosen political party wasn’t elected to govern, as I and millions of other Canadians have done over the years, and spare us your tantrums.

Roderick MacIntosh, Peachland