{"id":3514,"date":"2020-04-16T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2020-04-16T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T09:48:09","slug":"an-open-letter-to-our-honourable-dominic-leblanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/04\/16\/an-open-letter-to-our-honourable-dominic-leblanc\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to our honourable Dominic Leblanc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bambi is allowing herself to write this post as an open letter to Mr. Dominic Leblanc, President of the Queen\u2019s Privy Council for Canada:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/pm.gc.ca\/en\/cabinet\/honourable-dominic-leblanc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is doing so because she has considered that he is perhaps\n\u201cthe brain\u201d of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is not only intelligent. He is\nSURELY one of our MOST competent federal politicians\u2026This is clear in her mind.\nShe has even wished he would have won the leadership of his party a few years\nago, not Mr. Trudeau\u2026 He would have been our PM now ?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for your 18-year-long service to Canada, even if you may be at times controversial to some (we cannot please everyone in politics, just like in life. A leader must not aim to please all, but rather to earn everyone\u2019s respect).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a more personalized citizen level, Bambi has voted for\nyou, Mr. Leblanc, almost all her NB life (12 years in August, 2020). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She could have easily done so during the last electoral\ncampaign. She did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost a year before the electoral campaign, she made\nup her mind and it was like a grieving process to her: She will not be voting for\nyou. No, not because she suddenly started to find you less competent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was rather because of your boss (colleague and\nclose friend), Mr. Trudeau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of a lack of clever leadership, along with a\nrather collective stupidity in our country, and by extension perhaps in the Western\nworld in general, Bambi became worried about Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, more than ever, she is concerned. This is why she\nis writing to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Bambi, writing is a pleasure. The pleasure of the actual\nwriting process for sure, but also the joy of sharing to confront our ideas. The\nlatter is all what we have left in life when everything else would be lost or\nkilled. It is called freedom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See, Bambi considers herself as a free thinker, a classical liberal. So, it was only logical to find herself voting for the Liberal Party of Canada<\/em> for decades. She has been faithful to that vote almost ALL her 30 years in Canada, except when your party cheated with the sponsorship scandal (time at which she voted for the New Democratic party<\/em>) and recently, she voted for the People\u2019s Party of Canada<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the name of those so-called liberal values, she is writing to you today to express her disappointment and beg your government to come back to its sense with regard to the following: Please stop any bill \u201cagainst Covid-19 misinformation\u201d. Bambi does not buy it. Although she may be wrong, she thinks that this is a mere political move for more power (= less freedom) in our country (in the name of covid-19). This is not healthy power. This is a risky slippery slope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizens are not idiots, Mr. Leblanc. Even if they are\nnot trained lawyers like you, they recognize odd laws when they see them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizens who come from China (my friends in Toronto)\nor Lebanon (my friends in Montreal) left their home countries, aspiring for the\nfreedom of the Western world. Please do not disappoint them. They and we all deserve\nbetter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We deserve an open country where we can debate ideas\nand express emotions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Mr. Anthony Furey wrote well in the first article\nbelow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s widely known that Health Minister Patty Hadju, Dr. Theresa Tam and\nother officials have now done complete reversals on many aspects of this\nillness. They previously told Canadians that the risk remained low and that\nCOVID-19 did not spread asymptomatically. Then there was their insistence that\nflight restrictions and widespread usage of face masks did not work, only for\nthem to turn around and voice opposite policies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone understands that there\u2019s a steep and frequently changing\nlearning curve when it comes to getting a firm handle on all the aspects of\nCOVID-19. But if the public is expected to cut officials some slack, the\ngovernment should extend the same courtesy to the public.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFUREY: Feds planning laws against COVID-19 misinformation is ultimate irony<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like Mr. Furey, Bambi strongly believes in learning\ncurves. Her blog is a little example. She thinks about matters out loud, so to\nspeak. Perhaps a month or a year from now, with new external input and new thoughts,\nshe would likely see an evolution of her own thoughts. She may perhaps question\nthem or laugh at them. She may perhaps think to herself: \u201cOh no, that is still\nvalid\u201d or \u201cOK I was wrong on that one\u201d, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please let my fellow Canadian citizens have that freedom to question themselves and others, to share their ideas, even the craziest. Trust that other readers will have the critical judgment to know what makes sense or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In relation to this topic, as described in an earlier\narticle in La Presse entitled \u201cfederal money to fight disinformation<\/em>\u201d, \u201camong the selected entities, we can\nfind the professional federation of journalists in Qu\u00e9bec ($330 164) and\nthe Asian Environmental Association ($64 660), which fights misinformation\nin communities speaking Chinese and Vietnamese languages in Vancouver.\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/covid-19\/202004\/07\/01-5268419-de-largent-federal-pour-contrer-la-desinformation.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can\u2019t that money above ($394 824) serve to buy PPE to\nprotect those citizens rather or their elders, etc.? For instance, journalists will\nneed PPE to keep us informed. Citizens in Vancouver who may be served by this \u201cAsian\nenvironmental association<\/em>\u201d would also benefit from PPE or from more urgent\nmatters in pandemic times (perhaps local food banks, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you please reassure us that we are strictly serving\nCanadian citizens with initiatives like the above, without any collusion with a\n(Chinese) government they left behind to live more freely in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 With Mr. Trudeau\u2019s\nvision for Canada, we have all the rights to ask for this reassurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you. Be safe please. Be well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, on a more human level, you do not know it\nbut Bambi has sent you positive vibes and even prayed for your wellness when\nyou have been sick. She is happy to know you are doing well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is reading your Twitter, from time to time, during\nthis pandemic. She appreciates all the helpful links, both federal and provincial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best wishes to our beloved Canada!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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