Dear Editor:
Most Canadians of all political stripes were rightly outraged and perplexed at U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% tariffs on most Canadian exports to the U.S. After all, he previously signed the USMCA trade agreement, which he called beneficial to the U.S. at the time.
However, one positive thing that has resulted is that it has opened many eyes to the reasons why Canada is vulnerable to these threats: i.e. the Trudeau Liberal government’s destructive policies of the last decade.
The Liberal obsession with “net-zero by 2050” climate policies such as blocking east-west pipelines has forced us to sell almost all of our oil to the U.S. at a discount. Meanwhile, a new report from the Fraser Institute, written by University of Guelph professor of economics Ross McKittrick, shows that if Canada was to fully comply with its commitments under the United Nations Paris climate agreement, it would cause extreme economic hardship while only reducing global warming by less than a hundredth of a degree Celsius by 2100.
In addition, the Liberals have recklessly wasted taxpayer dollars, much of it motivated by their woke ideology, resulting in huge deficits every year, while grossly underfunding our military. The interest on government debt alone was projected to be $54 billion in 2024, which is about the same as it collects in GST.
Canada with its wealth of natural resources, could have been one of the most prosperous countries in the world today. However, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, individual Canadians’ standard of living has grown by only 0.7% in nine years, while that of Americans’ has increased by almost 16%. These numbers from 2022 are based on GDP per person, which economists usually use as a broad measure of standard of living.
Please don’t vote Liberal/NDP in the next federal election.
Henry Brunsveld,
Puslinch