Dear Friends & Supporters, I would like to share with you a letter to the Editor I wrote for Wellington Advertiser as well as a special message from Melissa Dore. Dear Editor,
I really want to thank the Wellington Advertiser for taking the time to interview Maxime Bernier and myself, and publishing the resultant article last week.
Saturday, February 4, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier came to Atwood. As it turned out, the occasion happened during the first anniversary of the Trucker’s Convoy. It was the culmination of untold hours of volunteer effort, and the day went over extremely well with at least 300 attendees throughout the day.
Although there are shortcomings in the article, it caused me to reflect on what it means to govern, given my position as a prospective Parliamentarian.
I recall a conversation I had with one of my supporters. He had some long time friends come visit not long ago. This supporter is a very successful businessman and his visitors built their respective careers in Government employment.
Their conversation although intended to skirt politics, did eventually land on the protester who cussed Chrystia Freeland last August in Grande Prairie Alberta. I am not about to pass judgement with regards to the protester’s actions, other than to say that the foundational precept of our rights and freedoms here in Canada is our unfettered right to freely speak and express our opinions, regardless of being appropriate or not.
According to my supporter, the conversation became very heated, and the guests became very unwelcome when they refused to acknowledge the parallel between the inappropriate comments made by the protester, and the extremely inappropriate comments made by our Prime Minister with regards to the Truckers Convoy.
I remember watching a townhall video in August 2018, where a woman refers to “mankind” in a question, and our Prime Minister stopped her mid sentence and proceeded to correct her by referring to “peoplekind”. I remember thinking at the time, given our fundamental right to free speech and the disproportionate power held by the Prime Minister, he should be the absolute last person in this country to impose his views on anyone’s speech.
It seems to me that the more responsibility we have in a free society, whether it be as a Parliamentarian, as a civic leader, even as a journalist, the less able we are (and downright ought to be) to impose our views and opinions on others.
Wayne Baker
PPC Candidate Perth Wellington,
Wellington North A Special Message from Melissa Dore Greetings. It is my hope that everyone is keeping well. Firstly, I would like to apologize to those of you who have emailed, texted, called, or left a voicemail for me over the last year. In an effort to cope with stress associated with the College of Nurses of Ontario's (CNO) investigation into my nursing practice, I had to stay away from messages. It was very difficult for me to process that educating individuals about COVID-19 vaccination using the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna product monographs, and then issuing a certificate communicating their choice to decline the vaccine, is considered professional misconduct by CNO. It has taken some time, but thankfully, I am now in a better emotional space.
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