Dear Editor
Once again, Ziggy Eckardt (Trending comments, Sept. 25) feels the need to raise his voice and sing the praises of the Harper government. Hosanna! Canada is the land of milk and honey, and it’s all because of the Harper government. Maybe the thousands of homeless people, or the hundreds of thousands of working poor, might see it differently.
Mr. Eckardt claims that “Canada’s international reputation has never been higher.” Now, that might have been true back when Lester Pearson won the Nobel Prize, and probably for several decades before and after. In those days, Canadians were loved wherever they went in the world. In those days, Americans would wear Canadian flags when they went abroad. Today, the material reality is that the Harper government has worked very hard to destroy Canada’s international reputation, and it has been very successful.
Today, the material reality is that the Harper government has earned the “Fossil of the Year Award,” five years in a row. Shame. Today, the material reality is that the Harper government has been criticized by the United Nations for its human rights record. Shame. Under the Harper government, Canada is the only industrialized nation that cannot manage to deliver the mail. Shame. Under the Harper government, Canada is the only industrialized nation that rejects science. Shame.
This is the legacy of the Harper government that Ziggy Eckardt is so proud of.
So where does Mr. Eckardt get his claim that we would so like to believe? It doesn’t take much effort to find out that it springs from a media release that was put out by a public relations company, which was then parroted by all the corporate media, which was then parroted by Ziggy Eckardt.
From a professional liar to a bunch of professional liars to Ziggy Eckardt to the public. Hosanna!
Victor Finberg, Burnaby
