Didn't get published

Just to make sure I have a record of my letters (I have a huge scrapbook of Vol. 1), I am sharing a few that didn't get in, so when I publish my next volume, they will be recorded.  Here are just a few............

Me and my letters.

 Dear Editor, Globe and Mail,

I too am adopted, but am not part of the Indigenous "sixties scoop" , thus would never presume to comment on the experience of that cohort.  I am instead a Caucasian baby boomer who considers herself "rescued".  Finding my birth mother and family (pre-Internet) was a years-long, arduous slog through city directories and dead-end phone calls.  Sadly, when I did finally light upon the right person, I learned she had died just a year before.

However, meeting the family within which I would have been reared made me profoundly grateful to have been adopted by the fine people who became my parents and extended family.  Instead of the privileged, middle-class upbringing I had had, I would have been raised in poverty and intermittent depravation.  My birth mother's unselfish sacrifice in giving me away allowed me to succeed; I doubt I would have in my birth family.  

So, not all adoption stories are bleak.  Mine was done in the best interests of both me and my birth mother.  I was lucky and very grateful society found a place for me to reach my full potential.

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Dear Editor, Globe and Mail

While a letter writer claims Pierre Poilievre shows disdain and contempt for journalists, I would argue Prime Minister Carney shows even more disdain and contempt for Parliament itself.  He rarely attends question period and when there, often leaves early when questions get too annoying.  To me, that is clear disdain for our democratic system.

Mr. Carney needs to park his jet in a hangar for a while, stay in Ottawa and show up to face all Canadians in the House of Commons — those who voted for him and more to the point, those who didn't. 

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Dear Editor, Globe and Mail

Never mind Gateway and Trans Mountain, I'm old enough to remember 'The Great Canadian Pipeline Debate" of 1956.  The issues surrounding this kerffufle centred on who would pay and who would own the TransCanada Pipeline to get Alberta oil to Ontario and Quebec.  Chaos reigned in the House of Commons for months, with one Liberal MP, Lorne MacDougall, actually dying during the overheated debate. 

Now the debate is about getting Alberta oil to offshore markets, but it remains about getting an invaluable resource for all Canadians to market.  Sound familiar?  Plus ca change.....

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Dear Editor, Calgary Herald

Carney's recent video to Canadians was a re-hash of unfulfilled pre-election promises, not a summary of actual accomplishments.  Yet, his poll numbers mysteriously remain consistently high. 

Puts one in mind of that old fable, "The Emperor's New Clothes", in which the emperor rides around town completely naked, while everyone raves and cheers about his beautiful new outfit.  It's baffling?  When will Canadians wake up and realize Mr. Carney is basically that naked emperor?

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There are many more, but I will include those in another blog.