‘Courageous, innovative’
Dear Editor:
RE: ‘Mismanaged hell,’ Sept. 24.
My sympathies to Wayne Baker, who seems unable to appreciate a vibrant variety in this country’s democratic system or our ability to confront the times, rather than look backwards, contrary to the entrenched political camps below our borders.
In Baker’s response, a rigid somewhat dated entitlement is on display.
As a woman, a chapter of my life’s work involved political portrait drawings, one of which hung in Rideau Hall (Gov. Gen. Ray Knatyshun). All of them required aspects of respect for both career and personality, no matter the party. It’s admirable to see former prime ministers Stephen Harper and Jean Chretien standing by Mark Carney’s side – “on board” Canada’s ship .
As a Canadian, I carry a surname inherited from a grandfather who homesteaded in the prairies. He worked briefly on the C.P. railway, hyphenating his own name for business purposes, to manufacture an innovative 3-man threshing machine (A. Stanley-Jones Small Threshing Units).
Growing up in Ontario as a child, we were self-sufficient on two fields (11 acres), an abandoned stone house (1866) without utilities, small barn for two pigs and 30 chickens, an orchard and a huge garden whose produce went into a home-built freezer. Clothes were home sewn.
Canadians are courageous and innovative. Any “contempt” aimed, is rejected. Any “concerns” are his own choice.
Bronwen Stanley-Jones,
Mount Forest