Dear Editor
Ever since I read it, a letter which first appeared in The Globe and Mail and then The Manitoba Co-Operator keeps coming back to mind to irritate me.
This letter was put together by one Maxime Bernier, who tried (and failed) to achieve the leadership of the Conservative Party and then become a Prime Minister of Canada.
In it he supposedly addressed the present President of the United States of America, agreeing with him when he croaks that supply management must go. He makes out that the cost of eggs and dairy products is making low income people suffer His word.
Does he really think that when he pays at the grocery counter for eggs and milk the money goes to the egg and dairy producer? Did he never hear about middlemen?
He calls it a protection racket, he villifies the producers while at the same time making out they are serfs.
He then goes on about the softwood lumber deal, seeming to turn around completely.
The amusing part is that he assumes that the president of the USA has heard of him.
Not amusing is that this is also the man who wants to destroy Canada's National Broadcasting Corporation, the CBC. Well, I’ve said it before, I'll say it again: politicians who want to destroy the CBC are afraid of their excellent investigative journalists, often with good reason.
Christine Pike
Waseca
