Letters to the Editor, Oct. 11, 2024

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LACK OF LEADERS

Re “West needs a wake-up call from its history vacation” (Ben Shapiro, Oct. 10): Where are Maggie Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan when you need them? The West needs strong leaders that can articulate and apply sound fiscal visions. Both countries thrived, long term, under their regimes. The West needs strong leaders that can articulate and impose global norms in world affairs. Their economic success underwrote military muscle. Peace prevailed for decades. At present, we have neither such government in the U.S., Canada, and other democratic states. Our ability to influence anemic economies and failed foreign relations is with our voices and our ballots. We need to elect candidates that most closely emulate those two consequential leaders in the interest of prosperity and global peace.

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Larry Sylvester
Acton, Ont.

(Weak leaders in both Canada and the US have left us vulnerable. And it’s not much better in the UK. We can only hope after a few elections around the world, leaders are elected who are have moral clarity on the important issues)

CHOW AND TRUDEAU NEED TO GO

There are still a number of us that remember the 1930s and how Poland was taken over. That is what I am seeing here in Canada now. To see the mayor of Toronto turning a blind eye to events such as the vigil on Oct. 7 is just what these protesters are looking for. Chow has had a plan of her own for years and the voters opened the gate for her. Now it is her way or no way, and is proving her power by ignoring solemn remembrance of the slaughter of Oct. 7, 2023 and the ongoing anti-Semitism. The risk of Canada being taken down could be solved by arresting the individuals creating the chaos and deporting them to where they brought their war. Otherwise, “hello” 1940s and terror. If there is a way we Canadians could have Olivia Chow and Justin Trudeau removed from office, we might have a chance of survival. I am 97 and know my years are numbered, but other than friends I will not be sorry to leave before Canada is no longer the country I grew up in.

A. Heslin
Orillia

(They are both embarrassments and the sooner we can toss them office the better off we will be)