Letters to the Editor
By-Elections Silence Discussion on Liberals' War Agenda and Privatization of Social Programs
What's happening right now is very dangerous. We wake up one morning and schools and hospitals are being destroyed in Iran. And some people are profiting from this because oil prices are rising, because weapons are being manufactured, sold and delivered. Even though this is happening far from home, we're affected too, because the Carney government's increased military spending contributes to the destruction of our hospitals and schools right here through privatization and the diversion of funds to war production.
How is it that we find ourselves faced with these faits accomplis? We're confronted with a reality over which we have no say. The by-election in Terrebonne is an opportunity to challenge the way the electoral process works and to work out how to not permit those who profit from war production and privatization to claim they represent the people, because they don't. Of specific concern at this time is the arrogance of the Liberals who claim their candidate cares for her constituents, addresses their concerns and, in particular that if they vote for her, Terrebonne will "have a seat" at the table in Ottawa where decisions are taken. The claim that this is democracy is absurd. Everyone knows they are not represented.
Reader in Lanaudière
Increasing military spending makes Canada's dependence on and integration into the U.S. war machine greater and greater. It does not provide benefits to the economy as the Liberals say. Our people need jobs but not in war production. Job creation should focus on all the ways in which the economy can be developed to benefit the people. Carney is congratulating himself for complying with the demand to contribute two per cent of Canada's GDP to NATO. The Liberal government achieved the goal with an injection of an additional $9.3 billion into the Department of National Defence's budget last June -- bringing the overall defence expenditures to just over $61 billion. Carney is now making visits to enhance bases in the Arctic in the name of defending Canada's sovereignty. The Liberals' domination of the media and airwaves is used to make sure no discussion takes place at all. This is dangerous indeed. The current by-elections cover all this up, presenting the results, whatever they will be, as an indication of support for the Liberals' war agenda.
Reader in Quebec City
Right now, billions of dollars in profits are being made simply from the increase in oil prices and Iran is blamed, not the war profiteers and the oligarchs who control oil production and distribution. After destroying our resources, our schools and our medical system, and increasing tuition fees, the military step in and offer to take control of young people's education, training them as soldiers, officers and professionals. Recruitment propaganda has intensified recently. The government devotes all kinds of resources to recruit the youth with promises of well paid jobs, stability and education.
None of this is raised during the by-elections which focus on giving the Liberals a majority so that they face no disruption in the House of Commons. The system of representative democracy is a fraud. It does not bring the representatives of the people who serve the demands of the people to power.
Reader in Laval
Re: Turncoats to Guarantee a Liberal Majority
The phenomenon of "turncoats" shoring up the federal Liberals' attempt to compile a majority government reveals without doubt the fraud of the electoral system in Canada. It is not a sign of strength, dignity or support for a Liberal agenda, let alone a national discussion which established that this agenda is good for Canada. It is a sign of the Liberal government's desperation to impose its anti-social warmongering agenda with no opposition whatsoever at any level.
Elected MPs claim to represent their party, their platform and their constituents but this has nothing to do with reality! The fact that tomorrow morning, an MP can decide to become an NDP, Liberal or Conservative and cross the floor in the House of Commons confirms that this is an electoral game and a fraud that holds the people in contempt. And this system is considered the best in the world!!
Members of Parliament swear an oath of allegiance to the King, not to the people and the nation they are striving to bring into being. And the King blesses them all! It shows that the only interest these MPs have is to advance their own careers in the name of high ideals, devoted public service and all kinds of malarkey.
Reader on Montreal's South Shore
Mark Carney met with King Charles III, nearly a year after this parasite's visit to Canada to deliver the Speech from the Throne, surrounded by his court. "All is well in your kingdom, M'Lord," Carney assured him. Ridiculous! No self-respecting Quebecker supports that!
Student at Cégep Lanaudière
The by-election in the Terrebonne riding is an opportunity to block the Liberals by preventing their candidate from becoming an MP and boasting about having the support of the people of Terrebonne. Let's say No! to the Liberal fraud that they represent what Canadians and Quebeckers want!
A University Youth Group
The by-election in Terrebonne is surely an opportunity to put the Liberals' fraud to shame – their claim that they represent the people -- whether in Quebec, Canada or, certainly not, in Terrebonne. Mark Carney's program -- a plan of perpetual schemes to pay the rich, weaken our rights and subject Quebec to federal control, all with the collaboration of the Coalition Avenir Québec government -- is not welcome in Terrebonne. The "Building a Strong Canada" program is aggressive, destructive and contrary to the interests of the people of Canada and Quebec. With this program, the government is rapidly removing all obstacles to environmental protection, which Quebeckers hold dear. It is diverting billions of dollars to serve the war plans of the U.S. and NATO, further weakening our security, our environment, our social services and our working and living conditions. This is all the more worrying as military recruitment is on the rise in an attempt to mobilize our young people as cannon fodder.
The Liberals need an MP in Terrebonne to back their plan and speak on our behalf. They need an MP to push through the high-speed rail project in the face of workers' and farmers' concerns about potential land expropriation, its scale, and the protection of farmland. They need one to continue the sell-off of our natural resources to feed private profits and serve the U.S. war-machine. This is not what Quebeckers want.
Reader in Montreal
Re: Defence of Longest Ballot Project
Thank you for your defence of the Longest Ballot Initiative and your exposure of the political elites' desire to maintain a corrupt system that addresses nothing many Canadians care about: declining health care and standards of living, growing homelessness and poverty, youth unemployment, an economy that increasingly marginalizes the most vulnerable Canadians, a growing climate emergency with out of control wild fires, corporate greed, growing Canadian militarism and attachment to the U.S. empire and its military industrial complex, a foreign policy that supports ethno-supremacist state Israel and aids crimes against humanity and genocide.
Your party stands on the right side of history and is truly working to benefit all Canadians and people of the world engaged in just what Marx and Engels addressed the class war that is now being fully waged by the global elites against all the working people of the planet.
The past federal election I worked for the party and it was an education and cast my first vote for Ms Di Carlo it was the best vote I ever cast!
Thank you for your hard work on behalf of all people!
Supporter in Mississauga
This article was published in
Volume 56
Number 10 - March 25, 2026
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/TML2026/Articles/T560105.HTM
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