Equal Treatment for All Canadians
We are hearing from certain people in Ontario that Albertans are whiners over the separation movement. Those people should take a long, hard look after 11 years of the Liberals at what they have done to your auto industry and auto workers. Of course, you will be OK, Mark Carney will bail you out. No bailout for energy workers in Alberta or Saskatchewan, or forestry workers in B.C. Separation is not the answer — we need a federal government that treats all Canadians equally.
Barry Harris, Edmonton
(Alberta’s frustration has been growing for years, with little care given to it by federal Liberal governments. As long as the Liberals keep getting elected overwhelmingly in Ontario and Quebec, little will change.)
Nosh on This
“Smorgasbord” is a term borrowed from Swedish as a stand-in for our word buffet. If Quebec’s language police have not outlawed it yet, then they had better get on with it. Surely, if the no less common Yiddish expression “nosh” is to get axed, in the name of some kind of inverted fairness, shouldn’t smorgasbord also get punted? So too dozens of other foreign language words. Buffet, by the way, is sourced to an old French word, bufet, which ought to make it even more linguistically kosher.
Orest Slepokura, Calgary
(This is what they are wasting resources on. Ridiculous.)
Outsourced Manufacturing
Over recent decades, North America has outsourced its manufacturing. We don’t build things like we used to, arrogantly and dangerously — in my view — declaring ourselves to be a knowledge-based economy. I’ve always believed that actual manufacturing capability and national security were inextricably connected. With AI now barking at our heels claiming much of the knowledge dynamic, we should be questioning the wisdom of that strategy.
Steve Peck, Brampton
(We didn’t learn from the pandemic how important it is to manufacture here at home.)
