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LETTER: ‘Canadian values,’ eh?

Dear Editor: One can only pity (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau’s hapless refugees if (Conservative leadership contender Kellie) Leitch ever finds herself in charge of the country. She intends to (ask if they ascribe to) “Canadian values.

Dear Editor:

One can only pity (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau’s hapless refugees if (Conservative leadership contender Kellie) Leitch ever finds herself in charge of the country.

She intends to (ask if they ascribe to) “Canadian values.”

If she asked me, I would have to agree at once, then pray she did not ask me to say what these might be.

Canadian values?

Sixty-plus years ago in school we never studied such a thing, and I’m stumped to come up with any.

So, everyone: Canadian values, please; 20 words or less. (We might draw from Lincoln’s inaugural speech: “with malice toward none; with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right”? Oops, better leave out God. Don’t want to offend.

James Derham-Reid
West Vancouver

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