Calgary Sun Letters, Oct. 26, 2026; ‘Carney won’t stick around’

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One & done

Mark Carney will be a one-time Prime Minister and move back to the U.S. Before the next election, as his popularity begins to fade, he will announce he has accomplished what he set out to do, namely to get Canada into the European Union as an associate member, which will likely be a lucrative arrangement for many of his European contacts. He will have also implemented his many government programs that will somehow manage to benefit Brookfield’s extensive portfolio and the Carney family for generations. He will have collected numerous accolades from the many countries he has ladled out Canadian taxpayer money to and that will look good on his resume to the UN and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) organization. Meanwhile, Canadians will be left to try to pick up the pieces of their lives in a country whose finances will be like that of Greece that needed to be bailed out by the IMF in 2010-2015. To pay that back, Greece had to implement deep public spending cuts, tax hikes, pension reforms, and privatizations – things the Liberal government is unwilling to do now, but a subsequent government will be forced to do later. Britain had warned us Mark Carney has a ‘Reverse Midas Touch’ and that his economic approach and policy views proved disastrous for Britain. So far, under Carney’s prime ministership, Canadians’ financial prospects and standard of living continues to slide downward. It appears Britain was right.

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TONY BORBELY

(We will learn Carney’s motivation, and effectiveness, in due time)

Need to be challenged

Throughout the referendum debate Albertans have learned much. How a democratic process can work, hearing opinions of others for or against the ballot questions. Looking back, in many ways it was enlightening. However, I am concerned as to impulsive views offered by so-called expert political analysts. I would expect trustworthy reporters, especially those with TV news to challenge these ‘experts’ to provide factual evidence or objective research on which they based their opinion. I suspect many of those opinions particularly from university political scientists are their own close-held beliefs. Thankfully, we saw Albertans making informed choices despite hearsay or an undefined viewpoint offered as fact. Voters need accurate objective evidence. Otherwise, it’s just an unsubstantiated personal opinion and we see too many of those on social media.

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TOM BURNS

(After seeing the numbers, it appears Albertans were pretty clear with what they wanted)

Missing in action

Many would say the very existence of Canada was on the line with the Alberta referendum. I would like to talk about the complete absence and negligence of a federal leader during the Alberta referendum campaign. That would be Avi Lewis, federal leader of the NDP. The NDP Leader of Canada did not step foot in Alberta during the campaign. No door-knocking, no speeches, no rallies and zero campaigning in Alberta. So what was the reason Lewis turned his back on Alberta and Canada during the referendum? Could it be, ideologically the man hates Alberta and Albertans know that? Could it be his position that every drop of Alberta oil should be left in the ground, destroying our oil industry, would not be popular here in Alberta? What was the reason the NDP’s federal leader was not here? Until this question is answered by the NDP, Albertans should be hesitant of giving the NDP any political or financial support.

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CHRIS ROBERTSON, Stony Plain

(A visit certainly would have made for some uncomfortable questions, particularly during this time)

‘Munich’ all over again

The name ‘Munich’ became synonymous with betrayal and craven appeasement because of the Munich Agreement of September 1938 with leaders of Nazi Germany, the U.K., France, and Italy deciding Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany. Important to note: Czechoslovakia itself was not a party to the negotiations. With presidents Trump and Putin brokering a pact, going over President Zelenskyy’s head, it seems like Ukraine’s experiencing another ‘Munich’ all over again.

OREST SLEPOKURA

(Any pact on the region needs to include input from Ukraine)

Senate needs a shakeup

In the opinion of many Albertans, the federal government, and many easterners, consider Alberta as its colony and only good for the revenue it brings into the country. Despite being a country similar to ours, this does not take place in our neighbouring country south of the border, the U.S. In the U.S. all states are considered equal, because they each only have two senators in their Senate. The provinces of Quebec and Ontario state this is because of their large populations. Yet when you total both the populations of Alberta and B.C. together, their population is larger than that of Quebec, and they only have 12 senators when totalled together compared to Quebec’s 26. Here in Canada, a province’s population is represented in our House of Commons by the number of members, or Members of Parliament, it has in the House. This is similar to the U.S., where a state’s population is represented in Congress by the number of congressmen it has. We should restructure our Senate so all of our provinces have the same number of senators regardless of population. Then all of our provinces would feel equal to each other.

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ED CORSON

(It would be an uphill climb to alter the composition of the senate, but change is clearly needed)

Bathroom humour

Since the orange man is bent on changing names of oceans and lakes in his undue honour, may I propose Canada change the names of restroom facilities in public spaces, restaurants and bars? The Donald. Hey, where is the Donald? I need to take a Trump!

PAUL McKAY

(We see what you did there)

Need a federal election

Outcome of the vote was not a success for anybody in Canada. There never should have been a vote to leave Canada; it should have been a federal election. Mainly because the same problems and issues still are there burning and fuelling discontent and division. Really having people from other parties move to another party just to keep a federal government alive is downright horrible. For the last almost 12 years a cloud has been over Canada and the storm is now moving to Quebec .

WAYNE ROBERTSON, Chatham, Ont.

(Judging by recent polling, a federal election may not have changed much)

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Road dividers

With all the cement dividers going up along Macleod Trail and elsewhere, should the city really be putting what are basically flat sidewalks on both sides of these things? A sloped curb would deter people from crossing in between intersections and becoming road kill. Sloping would also move a vehicle back into the lane without the risk of the back end of the vehicle swinging over into the next lane.

GLENN W. HARRISON

(Whatever’s the safer way to go)

Time change

The ski hills are complaining about the time change harming their business. Rather than the whole province change, why don’t they just open one hour earlier and close one hour earlier?

PETER SZECSY

(We would hope that’s been considered)

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