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Impressed by Bernier

My wife and I watched the the federal leaders debate Monday evening from beginning to end and the leader who impressed us most was Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party of Canada.

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He expressed his views in a clear, measured and thoughtful way, and didn’t just babble like some of the others.

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Jasmeet Singh of the NDP struck me as a self-styled Robin Hood, whose refrain, “Take from the rich and give to the poor,” is unimaginative, threadbare and tiresome.

The Green Party’s Elizabeth May, the climate-change Cassandra, candidly admitted she would rather have the United Nations make our laws and proudly showed off an internationalist broach pin she wore to make her point.

In his tame, tepid way, Conservative Andrew Scheer made some good points about energy self-sufficiency and reducing foreign aid, but as a public speaker he lacks the enthusiasm born of conviction.

Stripped of ornament and cosmetics, the Liberal policy, as espoused from the podium by Justin Trudeau, held few surprises. It offers more taxes, more spending and more indecision and confusion wrapped up in a paternalist ideology of: “We know best what’s good for you.”

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And, with Quebec foremost on his mind, Yves-Francois Blanchet of the Bloc Quebecois had little of substance to say that applies to the country as a whole.

With the possible exception of Mr. Bernier, the leadership potential I witnessed in the debate leaves a lot to be desired in meeting the challenges of the future.

Werner Broschinski
Princeton


Many reasons not to vote for Trudeau

I could likely list 101 reasons not to vote for Justin Trudeau, but will focus on the most important. Sadly, Trudeau’s celebrity status seems to blind people to how terrible he has been as Canada’s PM.

When the SNC-Lavalin story first broke, Trudeau lied to reporters, denying any involvement. Despite convincing testimony by Jody Wilson-Raybould, a revealing audio recording and confirmation of his involvement by the ethics commissioner, Trudeau has never apologized for his unethical behaviour, and continues to justify it, based on what has been proven to be false premises. Why support someone with such an arrogant, dismissive attitude?

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Proclaiming himself to be a feminist, Trudeau treated Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott shamefully, turfing them from the Liberal caucus for demanding integrity and honesty. What vile hypocrisy.

During the 2015 election campaign, Trudeau promised electoral reform, transparency in government, and a new way of doing politics. None of these materialized. With respect to the latter two, the opposite transpired.

The Liberals claim they are supportive of the middle class. Statistics Canada figures show that only the wealthiest Canadians have benefited under Trudeau’s tenure.

Justin Trudeau is the only prime minister in Canadian history to be cited for ethics violations, and not once, but twice. What does that say about his character?

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The list goes on: huge government deficits, an embarrassing trip to India, the blackface scandals, inappropriate conduct towards a young woman in B.C., elbowing a female NDP member, ridiculing an Indigenous protester, shouting at a female Liberal MP who resigned. Where does it end?

What credibility and integrity does Justin Trudeau offer? All he brings to the table is unbridled arrogance, a sense of entitlement, unmitigated hypocrisy and a litany of lies. Why anyone would support Trudeau and the Liberal Party is quite unfathomable.

John Harley Whitlock
Brantford


School daze

If there wasn’t a federal election, Doug Ford would not have given into the school workers.

They’d be on strike right now and Ford would be ignoring them or writing back-to-work legislation. Hopefully, the people of Ontario will see it for what it is — an election ploy to help smilin’ Andy Scheer.

Wayne Whiteside
Okanagan Falls, B.C.

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