By Postmedia News
Abram Wiebe
Champion, Alta.
(After these wars are fought, it’s up to the people of these countries to change their leadership.)
WHERE WE LIVE
Why are there so many so-called Canadians living outside our country? Don’t they like living here. Why do we have to go and rescue them when it’s their decision to live there? If they were tourists I can see we have to help get them home, but other than that it was their decision.
(This is a never-ending debate. As things go, we help.)
Perhaps if the Iranian government and its Revolutionary Guards had spent less time, resources and manpower harassing, spying, interning and executing its own citizens, they would have been able to mount any kind of defence against the virtually unimpeded attacks by Israeli and American forces. Perhaps if the Canadian government had spent less time, resources and manpower trying to achieve a globally insignificant reduction in Canada’s globally insignificant GHG emissions, Canada would have had a GDP per capita in 2023 higher than 21st in the world, according to the World Bank. And perhaps Canada, with the world’s longest coastline by far, would today have the means to deter aggression from Russia across the Arctic, and along our virtually undefended 8,891-km long border with Trump’s United States. NATO, without the U.S., does not have the means to project power across the Atlantic or Arctic — we are on our own.
Mike Priaro
(The U.S. has renewed their commitment to NATO, which was critical.)