A letter from a concerned very senior citizen

Ankaret Dean | Oct 06, 2021

It is seldom that I get riled up and feel I have to express my thoughts. 

Somehow I got on to Randy Hillier's NO REPLY newsletter.  I continued to read it because I like to try to understand those with whom I disagree.  But this time he crossed a line.  He published a link to that wonderful speech by Sir Winston Churchill early in the Second World War:   “... We will fight on the beaches we will fight on the land ... We will never surrender."  This great leader, Churchill, may even may even have been responsible for me not growing up as a little Nazi girl.

How can Randy Hillier, our local M.P.P. use this inspiring speech to promote his campaign against our federal and provincial governments?

Imagine, back then he might have been conscripted and made to fight, and have had his haircut. He might have had no gasoline for his car, had black out on his windows, and a ration card for his food. 

Now, 80 years later, he cannot even wear a mask. (It was gas masks in those days.)

Unpatriotic citizens were locked up, there was no time for petty grievances.

Mercifully we are not at war, but we do have COVID-19, and we do have an environmental crisis. 

Surely it is time for us all to work together for the common good, to forget petty grievances and strive to keep Canada a safe and wonderful country.

Ankaret Dean