Letters to the Editor, April 10, 2025

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TIME FOR CHANGE

I’d like to shake the hand of our next prime minister, Pierre Poilievre, and I’d like to shake the hand of Ana our ‘first lady.’ Not all women/seniors vote Liberal, as the mainstream media would have us believe. I’m an immigrant and a senior and I’m not falling for the Liberal diatribe. Scrap Bills C-69 and C-5! Canada first, for a change.

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Leanne McLaren                                                                                                                                            Port Hope

(We cannot give another term in office to the Liberals who got us into this mess in the first place)

VOTING LIBERAL HURTS FUTURE GENERATIONS

In the federal election, many of the voters will be of an older age who have grandchildren. If the Liberal Party wins, many of those children will forever be hindered to enjoy a prosperous lifestyle of a good job, owning property, and raising a family, due to the unscrupulous debt load being added each year and the millions of dollars being spent on the interest alone and not the principal.

Wayne Smith                                                                                                                                         Scarborough

(This is perhaps the most consequential election in our lifetime and we need to think about the future)

STEADY HAND

Consider the classic game of chicken. Two cars speed toward each other. Each driver can do one of two things: Swerve or go straight. In a trade war, swerving means giving in the other’s demands (e.g., for China, buying more American-made products, and for the U.S., abandoning its new tariffs). To win, you must go straight — the one who swerves is the “chicken.” If both drivers swerve, neither wins but neither suffers relative to the other. But here is the crunch, literally: If both drivers go straight – i.e., if the trade war goes on, injuring both economies — both lose. Like war and generals, or politics and politicians, games of chicken — a.k.a. Trump’s trade war — are too important to be left to the game theorists alone. The only move is to play. I choose the calm, steadfast determination of the economist and former central banker who happens to be our 24th prime minister.

William Perry                                                                                                                                              Victoria, B.C.

(Perhaps this is the road Canada goes down)