Readers express non-confidence in the Liberals and their allies; outrage over a school field trip; disappointment in Premier Wab Kinew, and more

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Re: NDP joins Bloc in not supporting Conservative attempt to trigger federal election — Catherine Lévesque and Stephanie Taylor, Sept. 19

While political machinations may be fascinating to political players and analysts, what is sadly overlooked is the expectation that our representatives behave like honourable statesmen.

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A statesman would have no confidence in a government that has doubled our national debt, invoked the Emergencies Act without sufficient legal grounds, seized citizen’s bank accounts without due process, worked the auditor general and ethics commissioner off their feet, and reduced women to tears during a meeting of Parliament’s Status of Women Committee.

A statesman would have no confidence in a government that fails to inform MPs they are targets of a malevolent foreign power, or relies on foreign security agencies to identify domestic threats.

A statesman would have no confidence in a government taxing their citizens into government-dependent penury.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet have an abundance of confidence in the Liberal government’s performance.

They are no statesmen.

Marion Bacon, Kamloops, B.C.

After repeated ethics violations, spendthrift financial management, grievous overspending on procurements and the illegal invocation of the Emergencies Act, amongst other malefactions, it is clear that an election is due. Yet Jagmeet Singh declares that he will not support a non-confidence motion and that “New Democrats came to Ottawa to get stuff done and to work for the people, to fight for the people …” So what is worse than having Canada led by an incompetent? Having Canada led by two incompetents.

John P.A. Budreski, Whistler, B.C.

Re: Toronto school board should know that field trips are not for indoctrination — Terry Newman, Sept. 20; and Toronto teachers should be fired for taking students to political rally — Jesse Kline, Sept. 23

As Hamas and Hezbollah use the residents of Gaza and Lebanon as human shields, so does the Toronto District School Board use our children.

Duping parents and using their children to promote anti-Israel rhetoric and by extension anti-Jewish rallying is the lowest of lows for our publicly funded educational institutions. The perversion of it all is most disturbing, that the very institution that governs the education of our young minds is supporting using children to further a cause of hatred. Grooming of children to further an agenda of hate is heinous.

The people involved should be immediately dismissed and charged with the exploitation of minors. The TDSB should be disbanded, as should any organization that would promote hateful and lying rhetoric that resonates with tones of the Hitler Youth movement, which manipulated the children of the time to get Hitler’s ideology into the family unit. Some children would report their own parents’ objections to the Nazi SS. It this where we are heading?

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