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Letters: Looking for Clarity on Tom Mulcair's referendum math
Letter writers discuss the NDP's position on the Clarity Act, and other issues of the day.
Re: Calling Out Mulcair On Quebec, editorial, July 23.
The New Democratic Party's constitution requires a super-majority for at least one internal party process. How can something as important as Quebec separation logically be triggered by what amounts to the whim of one last solitary voter?
Also, the NDP should explain which "50 per cent plus one" will decide the next referendum: will it be half-plus-one of all votes cast, or half-plus-one of those accepted by the returning officers, who are appointed by the Quebec government?
After the 1995 sovereignty referendum, the 86,000 disputed ballots were destroyed. But all available evidence suggests well more than half of them were, in fact, legitimate No votes. At the time Mulcair spoke of "an orchestrated effort" to invalidate many No votes. The frightening risk that a referendum could be stolen in this way is another powerful reason why a super-majority must be the standard.
Brian Kappler, Montreal.
Mulcair does not have a realistic view of the political situation in Quebec. Parti Québécois Leader Pierre Karl Péladeau has significant support (34 per cent) in the May 2015 Quebec Sondage Leger-Le Devoir poll. The Liberals are at 32 per cent. Péladeau is a charismatic leader, who has a real chance to form the next government of Quebec in 2018. Mulcair ignores the very real possibility of a separatist government being elected.
Péladeau has stated quite clearly and often by electing him leader the PQ has given a clear mandate to transform Quebec into a country. He has every intention to plunge the province back into the constitutional quagmire.
Mulcair defends the NDP Sherbrooke Declaration of 2005 by stating Quebec should be granted specific powers and room for manoeuvring. As prime minister of Canada, he would recognize a referendum victory of 50 per cent plus one to break up Canada.
He claims that just by insuring middle-class prosperity, he would counter any thoughts of a sovereignty referendum in the future by Quebecers. What crystal ball is he looking in to? Mulcair is playing a dangerous game with the unity of Canada to just to garner votes in Quebec.
Russell O'Brien, Waterloo, Ont.
Golden girl
Re: Pan Am Notebook, July 23.
Melissa Bishop not only won Pan Am gold, but she won a place in my heart. A comely Canadian female smashing the women's 800-metre world record by some 54 seconds? It doesn't get any better than that. Get ready for a tickertape parade.
Randall Bell, Whitby, Ont.
Wait times
Re: Mother With Sick Child Says Strangers Kept Car From Being Towed, July 23.
While I applaud the kindness of strangers in Barrie, Ont., helping this mother out, the sad subtext to the story was her nearly nine-hour wait for care of her sick son. We need to have a grown-up conversation about health-care delivery in this country. The fact is the status quo and nine-hour waits should not be acceptable to any taxpayer.
Rob Nieuwesteeg, Calgary.
Taste of own medicine
Re: Cadets Used As 'Lab Rats' In Pepper Spray Study, July 23.
Regarding the use of cadets as "lab rats" for testing pepper spray, while in cadet school, bravo. They are in their seventh week, not their first so they know they have probably made the cut. Pepper spray and stun guns will probably not ever be used or tested on full-fledged officers, so this is as close as they will get. I am not an advocate of civil disobedience, but this sort of "taste your own medicine" approach when using these products might have spared poor Robert Dziekanski his awful fate.
Nick Moar, Calgary.
Joe Blow not G.I. Joe
Re: Civilians Guarding Military, July 23.
U.S. gun makers keep pouring out their toxic products for civilian sale, it will be yet another windfall for them should all military recruitment centres have to be armed. Such are the wages of a country in which less than eight per cent of all the military-style firearms are in the hands of the military and police. The fact any Joe Blow can walk around with weapons once reserved for G.I. Joe contributes mightily to the need the NSA feels to spy on all American citizens, since it's never easy to predict just which gun owners harbour delusions or malice.
Ron Charach, Toronto.
Trudeau's decline
Re: Trudeau Falls To New Low In Poll, John Ivison, July 23.
With limited experience, it was only a matter of time before the traction gained from his father's name, would be undermined by his making serious gaffes, causing Canadians to take a careful look at Justin Trudeau's ability to run Canada. He has also taken the Liberals further left than any of his predecessors, raising questions within his party.
Initially, Trudeau was greatly assisted by an adoring media, who saw him having the best chance of defeating Stephen Harper. With NDP Leader Tom Mulcair's rise in the polls, he is now the media darling, while they have abandoned Trudeau.
Larry Comeau, Ottawa.
Trump said it
Re: The Truth Of Trump, letter to the editor, July 23.
Letter-writer JoAnn Braem says Sen. John McCain started the contretemps by calling Donald Trump supporters "crazy." If she is wondering where he got the notion crazy Republicans support Trump, she might turn to a National Politics report that appeared in New York Times on Oct. 25, 1999. It includes this quote from Trump about why he was joining the Reform Party: "I really believe the Republicans are just too crazy right."
I believe him. As Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up." So, is Trump, as Braem says, a teller of truths?
Al Lando, Toronto.
Donald Trump speaks his mind and doesn't dance around the truth as most politicians frequently do. People do like him because he is anti-politics. He is sort of the anti-hero, but in the end they won't vote for him. He is the bad boy of politics, but the suitor always chooses someone more traditional for a stable marriage.
Trump will make the campaign interesting, but he will also probably kill the Republicans' chance at the White House this time. Donald may have the trump card, but the ace is in the hands of Hillary Clinton.
Douglas Cornish, Ottawa.
'Just read the Qur'an'
Re: Islamist, Not Islamic, letter to the editor, July 21.
Letter writer Fasih Malik asks, "How could anyone associate this terrorist (Abdulazeez) with the same religion that is practised by more than 1.6 billion people?" Answer: "easily." Just read the Qur'an, and the Hadiths and you will be informed and not deceived.
"Fight for Allah's cause (jihad)." (Q2:24) "Fight them (the kufars, the non-Muslims) until … the religion of Allah reigns absolute." (Q2:193). Malik mentions that Muhammad teaches loyalty for one's country. The Islamist is taught that his primary loyalty is for Allah's cause (jihad) and Shariah law. This by far supersedes his loyalty for democracy, liberty and free speech, with which God has blessed us and with which Islam is not at all compatible. Islam assures Paradise to Abdulazeez, Hassan, the Islamic killer of the 13 soldiers in Fort Hood, Tex., and other killers of Jews and Christians.
John Stefan Obeda, London, Ont.
Cat out of the bag
Re: Will Bill Cosby Ever Face Prosecution?, July 22.
To be fair: until now, we only had decades old accusations that could not be proved either way. It should be noted one of Cosby's accusers claims the deed occurred at the Playboy mansion when she was 15. This raises the question: who allowed a 15-year-old girl inside what amounts to little more than a high-end brothel? That said, with the release of these court documents, sworn under oath, I would say, Now, we have a problem.
Jerry Pryde, Stoney Creek, Ont.
Public vs. private broadcasting
Re: Senators Urge New CBC Funding Model, July 21; CBC under Siege, July 22.
Ian Morrison of the Friends of CBC complains proposed Senate changes would render the public broadcaster nothing more that "a transmitter of programs that are conceived and thought up by private interests." Imagine that, Canadians might hear the news and current events from the view of people who don't work for the government.
Lee Eustace, Toronto.
I watch the CBC enough to know this: On CBC Newsworld, there are talking heads working two-hour shifts during the day, asking someone in London or Washington to explain something in Turkey or Kansas. Question: why the remote middleman?
The talking heads' two-hour shifts often include a repeat of the news covered in the first hour. They don't talk continuously. Film coverage takes up a significant amount of airtime.
Not only did the CBC not have the brains to broadcast the Pan Am gold medal baseball game live on the main network, the guy who did the play-by-play online was a volunteer. And you don't think I want to close the CBC down.
Douglas L. Martin, Hamilton, Ont.
In praise of virtue
Re: The Tomb Of Virtue, Barbara Kay, July 22.
Barbara Kay wisely points out an example of how important the habits of virtue are. Because the people of the church in Charleston, S.C., had learned the virtues their religion taught, we were saved from watching another tragedy unfold and instead had a great example presented to us of how beautiful virtue is.
Becoming a virtuous person is no easy job, but it is something we all need to be taking much more seriously, as Kay points out. Just imagine, if we all learned to be virtuous, we might actually be able to see peace on earth some day.
Dianne Wood, Newmarket, Ont.
The nuclear conundrum
Re: The Case For The Iran Deal, John Kerry and Ernest Moniz, July 24.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's robust denouncement of the Iranian nuclear deal certainly has not curried favour with Washington, but when the only democracy in the Middle East is surrounded on all sides by Arab countries bent on wiping it off the face of the earth, his defeat over the Iranian nuclear deal is perplexing and troubling. If Western countries do not pony up in their defence of Israel, future headlines may read, "So goes Israel — so goes the world."
Paul Stevens, Milton, Ont.
The U.S. secretaries of state and energy admit the temporary nature of the restrictions this agreement places on the Iranian pursuit of nuclear arms. They tout the safeguards of "snap-back" sanctions in preventing breaches of the agreement, while knowing full well once China, Russia and Europe resume profiting from business with the ayatollahs, there can be no effective reinstatement of sanctions.
President Barack Obama has argued the necessity for this agreement as a choice between war and peace. He intentionally omits the fact sanctions were having an immense effect on the power of the Iranian regime. Their removal and the release of billions of dollars have thrown a lifeline to the Iranian regime and will enable the ayatollahs to fund global terror.
The bottom line is this. an agreement is only worth the willingness of its signatories to adhere to it. Iran has shown numerous times it does not keep its words, and more so, after the agreement was signed, its leaders have already declared their intentions to avoid compliance with its salient safeguards.
Steve Samuel, Toronto.
If I hadn't seen the name of the author, Secretary of State John Kerry, I would have thought this article had been written by the leader of the Iranian negotiating group or by George Orwell's Ministry of Truth.
Harold Reiter, Thornhill, Ont.
Israel's right
Re: Human Rights Not The Issue, letter to the editor, July 22.
Since letter-writer Terry Greenberg apparently operates under the misimpression "singling-out" Iran is akin to "singling-out" Israel, allow me to explain why that equation is fallacious.
While Israel may, during the course of its continuing fight for survival, commit "human rights abuses" as the United Nations and its critics and enemies understand them (for example, by constructing "apartheid" barriers and checkpoints that have prevented Palestinian terrorists from entering Israel and wreaking havoc as they have done in the past), here's the salient — and glaring — difference between the two countries: Iran is a totalitarian Shiite theocracy helmed by megalomaniacs who view the Jewish state as an alien and toxic presence in the Middle East and the world at large (which is not unlike how another megalomaniac, a German one, viewed Jewry in another time) and whose mantra "Death to Israel" and "Death to America."
Israel is the region's sole democracy that is looking to live in peace with its neighbours, including Iran. No one in Israel is chanting "Death to Iran." That said, Israel has every right to defend itself against an implacable enemy that seeks its destruction and may soon have the nuclear means to follow through on its threats.
Mindy G. Alter, Toronto.
Winners form governments
Re: Decoding The Coalition Government, July 24.
I am loathe to correct Carissima Mathen, but the Conservative Party, as the government, has the constitutional right to "meet the house" regardless, if it wins 168 seats or 16 seats. Now, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said "winners form government" so perhaps a new convention will emerge that the "leader who's returned the most number of seats" forms a government. Practical realities might also decide the issue. But, for now, the Conservatives get first crack at mustering a majority, regardless of the result.
Ranjan Agarwal, Toronto.
National Post
Source: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/letters-looking-for-clarity-on-tom-mulcairs-referendum-math
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