Letters for May 12, 2025: ‘Now elected, Carney just sucks up to Trump.’​on May 12, 2025 at 11:01 am

THE BIG SUCK-UP

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All the Donald Trump-bashing we heard from Prime Minister Mark Carney throughout the election campaign was replaced by his sucking up to the U.S. president when the two met in Washington. Carney praised Trump, then sat attentively and quietly as the president lectured him about making Canada the 51st state.

Let’s face it, as with the pathetic Trudeau government when it came to foreign policy, Trump has zero respect for the Carney government that U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick boldly declared just a bunch of socialists.

LARRY COMEAU

(We have a lot of recovering to do now that Trudeau is gone.)

BLANCHET WAS CORRECT

Re: King Charles reading Canada’s throne speech

We are a sovereign Canada? Get real! We are a stage show called Pomp and Pretension.

The only thing “sovereign” about Canada is the title of the guy reading the Liberal to-do list for our 45th Parliament on May 27.

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King Charles is Canada’s head of state. Not a Canadian by birth. He lives “over there.” He will be here with his former mistress (this is the truth), now called Queen Camilla. And so we have the ultimate situation comedy.

Canada’s self-important upper class and political retreads will gather in the House of Commons to bear allegiance to a foreigner, not to our country.

Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is correct: We are an “artificial country.” U.S. President Donald Trump is on target offering us statehood because, right now, we are socioeconomic migrants. We cannot control our own affairs. Each province is its own little fiefdom while a foreign monarch reads our speech from the throne. Hilarious, were it not so pathetic.

DYAN CROSS

(No one is laughing.)

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