Letters to the Editor, June 4, 2025
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FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
If ever we get the chance to decide together our common future, we will not let any of us get a far larger part of the wealth and leave a large group with just enough to survive. Of course, such a call for real democracy can hardly be understood these days, as everyone seems convinced, despite all evidence, that “representative democracy” is democracy. This has been repeated so many times, over such a long period of time, in the mainstream media that even several progressive forces are buying it. I can already hear strong reactions. Oh, but this real democracy is not possible today, we are far too many. Nonsense! First, the technology is there. Second, and more importantly, most decisions should be taken by the concerned people, directly or indirectly, not by absolutely everyone. Plus, we should realize that real democracy would eliminate a lot of issues raised by the actual absence of democracy in terms of peace, fairness and environment. Most of what we can do now is listening to the rich and powerful ones, laughing at us, despising us, protected by this fiction of democracy – the representative democracy. A time will come, I hope, for our own collective future and the future of our planet, that democracy, real democracy, will prevail.
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Bruno Marquis Gatineau, Que.
(Perhaps it will change — but as you’ve already acknowledged, there is no appetite from anyone to take a step in that direction)
LIFE IS NOT LIFE
Re “Cop killer gets life sentence” (Spiro Papuckoski, May 25): A life sentence doesn’t mean life in Canada. Why do we give concurrent sentences? One officer is killed and two wounded and all the suspect gets is a so-called life sentence. Concurrent sentences for the attempted murders indicates that the other officers don’t matter — just so much useless paperwork to fool the public into thinking justice is being served. Bring back consecutive sentences and make the life sentence life.
Maurice Duchesne Thunder Bay
(These sentences should outrage Canadians, yet no one says a thing)
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