Comparing Pitt and Trudeau

Re: Trudeau the Younger, Letter to the editor, Jan. 9 It is no contest as to who is/was the better statesman — Britain’s William Pitt the Younger or Justin Trudeau the Younger.

Trudeau is unable to get a pipeline built, unable to secure our borders and unable to track what happened to most of the 25,000 Syrian refugees he welcomed without knowing whether they had marketable skills that Canada needs. Thanks to the revised NAFTA treaty, GM is now closing its Oshawa plant. Plus his finance minister is raising taxes, en- couraging many Canadian companies to move to the U.S. Barbara Cantlie, Etobicoke, Ont. What an insult to William Pitt the Younger to compare him to Justin Trudeau. The economic stability of this country has much to do with prime minister Stephen Harper, and nothing whatsoever to do with Trudeau, who is busy destroying the economy with the pipeline fiasco. Kristina Tomory, Toronto

BRANDON HARDER / POSTMEDIA NEWS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a town hall at the University of Regina on Thursday.