Dear Editor:
Never before, in a lifetime, have Canadians had to confront a dictatorial egotistical bully as Donald Trump, who is proving to be against his country’s former allies.
It is clear to me that the Trump strategy is to progressively dismantle the pillars of American government and therefore, at the end of four years as president, make a clear path to a continuing oligarchy.
Rapprochement between Russia and Trump, in which he and Putin apportion the future of the Ukraine while Trump casts an eye on takeovers of Greenland, Panama and even the whole of Canada, sets a trend in which the dictators of the world, including China, divide the world into zones of control they each agree on.
The free people of the world, and their democratic leadership, need to stand together economically and militarily to prevent such actions. Even more important is that Americans recognize the duplicity of their newly elected president and end his presidency by an act of Congress calling for his impeachment.
The recent exclusion of Associated Press journalists because AP has been opposed to the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, is not the first or likely last actions of retribution against those who would speak freely. Clearly this is an infringement of the American Constitution’s first amendment; and counter to the ideals of democratic governments around the world.
And now Trump’s latest lie: that Ukraine started the war with Russia. How many lies, like those related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and claims of a stolen election must he tell to advise all the world of his crass fabrications and deceit?
We need to leave our relations with the American public open to better future relations since they will always be our southern neighbours; but it must be clear with them that we are a sovereign nation with plans as big as America for our future development.
The time is now to increasingly diversify our Canadian economy by trading with friends around the world like Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the European Union.
The time is now to recognize our vulnerability along our borders and intensify the number and capabilities of our neglected military.
Peter Little,
Fergus