Dear Editor:
Just a few days ago Prime Minister Mark Carney, in an interview, stated that Canadians needed to “earn our freedom every day.” What? I think what he meant to say was that Canadians needed to exercise our freedoms every day.
Such as the freedom to question our leaders and government about transparency and accountability. We are free to question policy and mandates that have apparent flaws. We are free to remove political leaders and members by vote.
We are free to decide what to believe by gathering information by traditional and non-traditional news sources. We are free to tell the government they are not to dictate how we should speak, think or act.
It is quite easy to locate information of our freedoms in the Constitution and Charter of Rights. We are free to tell Mr. Carney he is to serve the people of Canada, not the other way around. We are free to tell the prime minister that he has to earn our respect every day.
Alas our freedoms can be taken away by an invading foreign country or our own government that thinks it can dictate laws and policies on its own.
Since Canada is still a free country and that freedom was won many years ago, Mr. Carney could do well to stop talking at the people and instead listen to the people, we have some great ideas about how we should live and do business with each other and abroad.
Michael Thorp,
Mount Forest