Democrats and their Canadian allies are bullying Trump
By calling U.S. President Donald Trump a “bully,” letter-writers Steve and Peg Orcherton are being hypocritical.
I have never seen so much bullying by losing Democrats and wannabe Canadian Democrats. Their words and actions are deplorable. Review Madonna’s remarks, alone.
I’m in no way a Trump fan, but the Democrats’ mindset of “my way or the highway” is bullying. Hugh Shirreff, Vancouver
Also boycotting U.S.
Along with many other Canadians, I have also cancelled any vacations to the U.S. and will not buy American goods to protest the attitudes and actions of the Trump administration.
I live a couple of minutes from the border and can look out my window to see the U.S. across the bay. The Peace Arch is a five-minute walk from my front door. What were comforting, familiar things a short while ago are now a reminder of what the Trump election has unleashed.
I have never been so proud to be a Canadian. Barbara Carter, White Rock
Meet hate with love
It’s impossible to quantify or even imagine the amount of amassed malignant hate required for the deadly performance perpetrated by accused Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette.
We mustn’t answer Bissonnette and his kind with hate, because hate only begets hate. Instead, we must learn to love all people as our brothers and sisters, part of the family of humankind, and then, and only then, can we hope for peace on Earth.
F. Ron Yorston, Delta
Consider those values
Re: Andrew Coyne: The common threads of intolerance behind anti-Muslim atrocities.
What bemuses me about Coyne’s op-ed denouncing the rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic sentiment is that he utterly fails to explicate why this undercurrent of apprehension and fear exists in the first place, as if it has occurred in a vacuum.
While he espouses that Islam should be open to criticism like all other belief systems, he never delves into what those criticisms are and why the West is so leery of Islamic influence. Any discussion on Islamic values concerning freedom of speech, liberty and religion, equal rights for both genders and a host of other individual and societal beliefs and behaviours is instantly treated as being anti-Islamic and bigoted.
The only way we can move forward in combating intolerance toward any world view and cultural mores isn’t to ignore its ethos, but to vigorously and respectfully explicate them. Don Sukkau, Delta
Not a good mom
Mary Purdy, who died of a fentanyl overdose, didn’t live for her children. She died while taking drugs in the selfish pursuit of the almighty high while the kids were in her care — kind of the polar opposite of a loving, caring mother.
These poor kids are now left to deal with the aftermath of her fateful and very bad parental decision. Roger Scott, Penticton