Letter to the editor: All hail the Republic of Alberta

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REPUBLIC OF ALBERTA

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The Republic of Alberta: It has a nice ring to it.

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This province should start negotiations with the rest of the country to secede from this once-great dominion. Let’s face it, Justin Trudeau and his political gang, including his climate hit-man, Steven Guilbeault, have little time for this maverick, tumbleweed western outpost. They regard Danielle Smith as a female Donald Trump and will do everything in their power to defeat her.

Why stay? This isn’t Quebec, which gets everything it whines about and is essentially an independent nation with the exception of currency and, of course, grabbing all that equalization loot that Smith’s province mostly provides.

Alberta will never be able to entirely prosper within Canada, and that is even with a Conservative regime on Parliament Hill.

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Do your own thing, Wild Rose Country; your time has come.

STEPHEN FLANAGAN
OTTAWA

ONLY ROTA?

So let’s get this straight. Then-House of Commons speaker Anthony Rota invited Yaroslav Hunka to sit in the visitors’ gallery and recognized him when Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Parliament. Rota then “paid the price,” being forced to resign as speaker.

Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail now reports Hunka was invited to a reception by the Prime Minister’s Office.

Notwithstanding our stumblebum prime minister’s claims he knew nothing of the invitation — possibly even true — someone in the PMO was responsible for vetting names submitted for invitation. Yet no one in the PMO will pay the same price and lose their job?

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As long as Rota has filled the position of sole scapegoat, all is well. There is absolutely no double standard between the PMO’s and House of Commons’ responses to this fiasco.

Incroyable!

MIKE ALAIN
OTTAWA

JUST DO WHAT JUSTIN WANTS

CTV journalist Vassy Kapelos attacks the premier of Alberta for what appears to be a common-sense approach to the gender situation.

Oh, no, let Justin Trudeau and his team make the rules because their record speaks for itself.

BOB MORRIS
OTTAWA

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