Sir,
I do not vote NDP. I am a firm believer in capitalism, free markets, and governments that shun excessive welfare and regulation. Governments that coddle their people with too much welfare and needless services, transform many independent folks into dependents. My motto is simple: the more governments do for their people, the less their people can do for themselves.
My political heroes are Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Joey Smallwood, and Peter Lougheed. Tommy Douglas was a well-meaning man, but I did not vote CCF because I distrusted his progressive inclinations. I once believed that John Diefenbaker might be a good PM, but he fell short. When he cancelled the AVRO CF-105, my modest admiration for the man turned to scorn.
Pierre Trudeau, with his Francophone-enabling multiculturalist policies, his cumbersome, coercive, intrusive, and immensely costly language legislation, was, undoubtedly, our worst Prime Minister. His National Energy Program was an absolute disgrace and an immense burden on Alberta. I despised the man and I despise his memory.
I believe that Jack Layton was a self-serving man who, had he become PM, would have enriched himself at the expense of the nation. And, quite frankly Mr. Mulcair, having watched, listened, and studied you since Mr. Layton died, I am inclined to believe that you may well be cut from the same cloth.
I do not particularly like Stephen Harper, but I vote for his party because I distrust him far less than I distrust either you or Justin Trudeau. I believe that if either you or Mr. Trudeau were to form the government, you would not only seriously mismanage Canada, but you would also eagerly give Quebec ever more of Canada's, i.e. Alberta's, wealth than that besotted province is currently receiving, and certainly far, far more that it deserves or, indeed, has earned.
Quebec is a millstone on this nation. It is the only province that has earned the title of the most corrupt place in Canada - ever. It is a place in which corporations, governments, and politicians walk hand-in-hand with the Mafia. And not only are Quebecers seemingly comfortable with corrupt practices, they are also imbued with such a deep sense of entitlement that it beggars the imagination.
Mr. Mulcair, it can't have escaped your notice that Quebecers have matured little since the days of their French ancestors. Napoleon Bonaparte, an astute observer and not one to mince words, once described the French as "de grains de sable, epars, sans systeme, sans reunion, sans contract". In other words, Mr. Mulcair, Quebecers are, in essence, neither chalk nor cheese.
Politicians who favour transferring ever more money into that swamp of petulant, corrupt, statist, and inept people, and who are intent on forcing official bilingualism into the nation’s fabric, must be cast in the very same mold. I gather that you, sir, are just such a politician.
Gerry Porter
Ottawa
December 22, 2014
