It’s time to grow up

Re: Payette quits, Jan. 22

With the departure of Julie Payette from her role as governor general, maybe it’s time for Canada to take a long hard look at itself in the mirror. Canada needs to ask itself why, in our perpetual quest to be taken seriously on the global stage, we always seems to fall short. Why is it that at every global banquet, in the midst of other nations of arguably lesser accomplishment, we always seem to be relegated to take a seat at the kids’ table? The year is 2021 and it’s about time that Canada sees in that reflection a country that has fully and completely grown up. A nation that seriously needs to understand and realize that the time has arrived to finally move out of mother Elizabeth’s basement and stake its place in the world among the adults.

Joel L. Goldman, Toronto