Letters, Sept. 21, 2025: ‘No need to cover your face’​on September 21, 2025 at 11:00 am

What are you hiding?

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Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser is tabling a bill to address hate crimes and the promotion of hate against all various groups of people in public spaces and private businesses and homes. This is a good thing, since the incidence of promoting hate both verbally and by actions has exploded in the last two-plus years. There is one thing missing from his proposed bill, and that would be to make it illegal and a violation of this new bill to wear any kind of face-covering while involved in a protest or similar demonstration that may involve the usual tools to signal and promote hate against a specific group of people. Why would anyone need to hide their face if they aren’t doing something illegal? You hide your identity if you don’t want to be identified because you are committing a crime. Simple!

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KEN PELLEND

(Or if you don’t have the courage of your convictions)

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Elbows down

(Re: Little Progress Being Made In Canada-U.S. Trade Talks As Carney’s Focus Shifts To Mexico.) PM Mark Carney used his elbows-up gimmick as a blatant distraction to secure a fourth mandate for his crumbling incumbent Liberal government in Ottawa. He seemed to have misled millions of Canadians to think that with his ‘elbows-up’, Trump’s tariffs will be ultimately crushed at the blink of an eye. In context to this tariffs deception, this nation remains stuck in the tariff and trade quicksand.

DONALD K. MUNROE

(As soon as the election was over, the elbows came down)

We blew it

We had a chance in April. But the big-city socialists believed the Liberal lies and put them back in. Had the voters not been swayed by the glitz of Mark Carney, we could have a working government. Parliament quickly recalled. A budget by June. The House sitting through the summer. Enabling legislation would have been passed, and shovels would be in the ground for pipelines and gas liquefaction plants. Employment would be up. Immigration would be paused. Residential construction would be underway as gatekeepers were swept aside. And Canada would begin to prosper again under a Conservative administration. Instead, we have needless expenditures on pork barrel projects instead of letting free enterprise be free to lift up the economy. I mourn for our once great nation.

LAURENCE B. McGUIRE

(Same old Liberals — nothing will ever change as long as they remain in power in Ottawa)

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