LETTER – Will Canada be safer because the House Speaker has resigned?

Re: EDITORIAL – How a standing O in Parliament has humiliated our entire country

Thanks for the article. I’d like to point out however, it wasn’t just Jews that would be embarrassed by the presence of Hunka.

Unless you haven’t read your accurate history, an array of peoples were targeted by the Nazis, including physically and mentally impaired people, homosexuals, Catholics and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

If history is not to repeat itself, it’s vital that all groups targeted by the Nazi regime be included when mentioning this horrible time during WW 2, of which both sides of my family in Poland were victims of.

In addition, I hope you don’t take pleasure at the loss of a a man’s job, as in the house speaker. When did it become as normal as apple pie to strip a person of their livelihood for making a mistake, big or small? Wouldn’t stocks, sack cloth, tar and feathering be better than a person not being able to support themselves?

Not being able to support oneself translates to a death sentence. Seems there’s no forgiveness anymore with some factions of society, as the human is now purportedly supposed to be perfect. Too often, stripping someone of their ability to support themselves is the go-to. What about suspension, a leave without pay absence, etc. What about forgiveness, as I was taught by my family who endured more pain and suffering than the mistake caused Canadians in Parliament the other day.

Too many people are ticking boxes in their little check lists of morality in destroying others. And then what? Will Canada be safer because someone doesn’t have a job? Will your life be better because someone doesn’t have a job?

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

“Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

“Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

—Martin Niemöller

Thank you.

MARY