Canadians - Open Letter to Mr. S. Harper and Mr. G. Campbell

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Canadians - An open letter to Mr S. Harper and Mr G. Campbell.

Date: 2009/4/11
From: Jeremy Arney <iamjema@gmail.com>
To: Harper Stephen <Harper.S@parl.gc.ca>, "Campbell, Gordon" <premier@gov.bc.ca>
Cc: All MPs

An open letter to Mr S. Harper and Mr G. Campbell.

On the 2nd January 1935, in a broadcast on national radio Prime Minister R. B. Bennet said:

"Canadians are not those from whom unpleasant facts should be concealed. The people of this country were born optimists, but they were born realists as well"

I find this particularly poignant as today we face a carefully manufactured financial mess throughout the world similar to that which Bennett faced, and we, the Canadian people, are not being told the truth.

It is interesting that Bennet was also a Conservative, although the old type that believed in the Canadian people, and his fate was to lose the next election largely because he mishandled the country's affairs and lost the confidence of the Canadian people.

What Bennet did was follow the American president in his efforts to beat the depression, and the Canadians did not like that. His party members defected in droves and his policies failed.

There should be a lesson here for us all, I guess, and what that lesson is depends on your perspective as to what is more important. Is it the legacy left or the people of Canada?

I have only been a leader in a very minor capacity but one thing I do know is that if you want to be a leader you must appeal to those you wish to lead.

To appeal to the corporate interests only and not to the interests of the Canadian People is to tread on ice that will not hold your weight.

As Bennet so rightly said:

"We (Canadians) are able to handle the truth but grow weary of the lies and deceit."

One more quote for you that I will alliterate slightly:

"If a democratic society is to continue to exist, it must be able to root out the cancer of an armed, revolutionary movement that is bent on destroying the very basis of our freedom" - P E Trudeau 16th Oct 1970

I would change it to read: ...cancer of a financial and corporate movement... and there, I think, we have today's problem.

Because I love and honour Canada, I send you this as reminder that it is the Canadian people who employ you and expect you to do what is right for Canada, not for the corporations whose boards you seek to sit upon.

They care only for the dollars you can make for them and not for the people who make up this incredible country.

Jeremy Arney
Victoria BC