Letter to the Editor, Toronto Star:

Privileged people in positions of power have gone offside. Investigations abound in Ottawa. The Canadian electoral deck has been stacked at least twice; first by cancelling of the $2 per vote stipend to political parties; second by an electoral reform act that 159 professors have publicly decried.

Most notable to me is that Stephen Harper as Canadian prime minister announced Canadian pension postponements at an international gathering in Davos, Switzerland, before he informed the citizens of Canada.

These are relevant facts. They indicate contempt and injustice and a profound lack of the respect befitting the leader of Canada – even if he is in fact the worst one in Canadian history, as suggested recently by investigative journalist Michael Harris in his book “Party of One.”

In 2004, not that long ago, Tommy Douglas was named the Greatest Canadian of all time by voters across Canada. He said, “Social justice is like taking a bath. You have to do it every day or pretty soon you start to stink.”

Let’s draw that bath Canadians.
Stasha Conolly, Campbellford

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Letter to the Editor, Toronto Star:

Some people want to control how people dress and behave in public. Those people generally join together into groups in order to achieve their ends. Groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the government of Saudi Arabia, the government of Iran, and the government of Stephen Harper.
G. D. Miller, Trenton

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Letter to the Editor, Toronto Star:

It seems like an entire election fulcrum has come down to one’s view of Muslims.

If you can’t see how this is at least similar to Germany in the 1930s, or the Japanese during the war, Muslims after 9/11, or the current Syrian refugee crisis, then you are very uneducated, very oblivious, or very spiteful.

I fear the next Kristallnacht (look it up) is in our imminent future. A mob with torches and pitchforks at the castle.

If, on the other hand, you describe yourself as someone who hates divisive, personal attack politics, and you either still vote this way or don’t vote at all, shame on you – I never want to hear or read that complaint again, if you fall for it.
David Klarer, Oakville