Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor for Sunday, August 10, 2025

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HARPER’S HELP? A GOOD SIGN

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Re: Harper says Carney team sought his trade advice, urges looking outside U.S., online, July 28

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I understand that our current prime minister asked former prime minister Stephen Harper for his help on trade talks, and it reminded me that Harper had once asked for Mark Carney’s help on financial matters.

It is a good sign, and I would say Harper should take this opportunity and be a part of the three Ts: trade, tariff and tourism negotiations. He is considered a world statesman, is intelligent with a master’s degree in economics, and is well respected.

ANANT NAGPUR

(The Carney government should be asking for more help, that’s for sure.)

ELBOWS UP NOW OUR CHICKEN DANCE

“Blame Canada” is a satirical song from the 1999 animated film South Park and apparently Donald Trump’s current modus operandi. It ends with the lines:

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“We must blame them and cause a fuss.

“Before somebody thinks of blaming us!”

“I Am Canadian” was the slogan of Molson Canadian beer and its ad campaign rant from the early 2000s. We need to send multiple copies of this to the White House.

But, instead, like the banker he is, Prime Minister Mark Carney keeps his cards close to his chest while his Canada-U.S. trade minister, Dominic LeBlanc, flutters between Ottawa and Washington doing the Chicken Dance with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

Wings a-flapping rather than elbows up.

Instead of humbly schlepping down to Washington, invite Lutnick to Ottawa, if Carney really wants to negotiate. Trade works both ways. Otherwise, give our Canada-U.S. trade negotiations to Doug (cut the electricity) Ford!

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DYAN CROSS

(Ford isn’t the guy for the job either, but Carney’s plans are clearly not working.)

SERIOUS ABOUT CUTS? THINK CBC

Personally, I would be hard-pressed to find anything that irritates me more than the CBC.

Watching former president Catherine Tait showing her over-the-top arrogance when being questioned about salaries and the ratings of a billion-dollar behemoth that are below a PBS station in Kalamazoo perfectly exemplified this monstrosity of a left-wing propaganda machine.

If Prime Minister Mark Carney is serious about cutting waste in the government, there is no better place to start than right here.

WAYNE BOYCE

(We shall see if he does anything about it.)

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