Letter to the Editor

I don’t know if I can come up with the right words to describe how I feel about what those morons in Victoria just did in removing Sir John A MacDonald’s statue.

Disgusted, appalled don’t seem to cover it, but will have to be content with it. It’s an understatement to say I hold this in utmost contempt.

I know I don’t have to give everyone a history lesson, but simply put, the Canada that we know today, just might not exist if wasn’t for this absolutely incredible man.

This is a horrible example of the outrageous and damaging political correctness that is subverting our democracy and trying to change our wonderful history.

It is time apathetic Canadians quit sitting on their hands and start screaming to all and sundry that this is totally unacceptable. I will lead that charge. Tell them we are tired and fed up with small minority groups controlling the social agenda in our country.

I am very proud of our country and proud of our history. Did we do everything right in the past? No. Did we make mistakes? Yes, but I will put our history up against any other nation on Earth and come out looking very good.

It is a serious mistake to sit here today in our smugness and so called enlightened age and pass judgment on our forefathers in an entirely different age and society.

I believe there will be a municipal election in Victoria this fall and my message to the citizens there is to punt these guys; punt them as far as you can.

I just don’t know how we manage to elect these types to office, it’s beyond me.

In western democracies, there has been a huge growth in the election of grass roots, so called “Populist” politicians and parties including Canada, with the recent election in Ontario, due to nonsense like this.

Our politicians should take note, but I don’t think they will, as they are too dense to figure it out.

There will be a comeuppance and I can’t wait for that day.

Let’s hear it for Sir John A. MacDonald!

P.S.  I note our mainstream media are twisting things as usual and are now portraying John A. as the architect of the residential schools system. I don’t believe this to be true. I think it was a man called Hector-Louis Langevin.

Neil Matheson,

Cranbrook

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