Defend our country against any tyranny

DEAR EDITOR:

I am a Canadian and proudly Canadian as I watch representative democracy so challenged in the United States.

There where similarly proud and law-upholding Americans have been a generation in the effort to reform their government of its excesses, its colorate collusions and corruptions, its elite and their advantage-taking, capitalizing in the nation’s political business, we have seen how decent folk have become fed up with their duly-elected representatives, selfserving career politicians forsaking too often the voters who elected them.

And we’ve seen them put their hope, faith and energy into an extreme political outsider, as if with willful blindness toward their flaws and the unlikelihood of that leadership.

As a Canadian I may watch, speculate and lament about what’s happening south of the border, but how may I effect the state of affairs in my own back yard and the political discourse in my own country?

How may I effect the greater establishment of honesty, integrity and equality in the conduct of our government and judiciary?

How may I encourage an end to blatant opportunist behaviours, receive transparent explanation and demand severe accountability of my elected representatives on such matters as the WE-charity incidents, the breach of publichealth protocols and advisories by those in government and high offices of the civil service, but may I encourage the right to choose life?

With death writ so large on our lives this year, effected by the fear of pandemic illness, such drastically increased strain on our medical system and stress on front-line workers, with so many lives and livelihoods impacted and so many isolated personal sacrifices made by modest Canadians across the land; I want to encourage your colleagues and yourself to strive and do always better.

I want to encourage all due process and open public consultation on matters which reasonably require as much. I want to be rest assured that the respect and trust we as voters place in yourselves is not presumed, but is deserved by the government you provide.

I am writing today because I want to share and contribute to a flourishing nation, work toward its prosperity and defend it against all and any tyranny.

God bless our Canada.

Robert Ashe Penticton