YOU SAID IT: What could have been for Canada

WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN FOR CANADA

I’m a proud Canadian, but Canada is not “the best country in the world” because its citizens are living in mediocre economic times.

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Saudi Arabia has two main resources: oil and natural gas. Look at its gleaming new cities versus Canada’s crumbling infrastructure throughout the country. That, in spite of our multiple resources of the sea and land that, under good leadership, should have made Canada the richest in the world.

Canadians have been sold a bill of goods by government’s “leave it in the ground” attitude and that “tourism” and “green energy” will make us rich. What folly!

Justin Trudeau’s government of 10 years chased away billions of dollars in resource development, manufacturing, research and development, and even caused a “brain drain” to the U.S. of highly skilled people as we imported millions of the unskilled.

The biggest Canadian “industry” is government, which doesn’t earn anything for the country or its people, but only takes any wealth of its citizens for itself.

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Other countries looking on have laughed at a Canadian government that undermines its economic prosperity.

Canada has become an example to other countries of what not to do.

TONY BORBELY
CALGARY

NOT FOOLING ME, MARK

Re: MOU’s hurdles make chances of new pipeline to Pacific slim, Lorne Gunter column, Nov. 30

I don’t know about anyone else, and maybe it’s just the pessimistic view I have acquired over the last 10-plus years, but do Canadians actually think that Prime Minister Mark Carney wants the pipeline?

The way he’s getting around it is by pretending to be doing the right thing, and then sitting back and allowing the other players (B.C. government and Indigenous people) to scuttle it.

There we have it, another game by the Liberals. They can claim they were all aboard and again it will be someone else’s fault that it didn’t pan out.

Seriously, people, it’s so easy to predict the Liberals these days it’s not funny.

SANDY JOHNSTON
GREELY

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