LETTER

Harper’s Asia trade pact = more museums 

 

Before I even open the competitor of The Bulletin,  I am confronted by "Un Musée des Sports?" on its front page with some grinning bald guy, beaming at his hopes of laying his hands on wads of taxpayer dough for his pet project.

 

Is he for real?  With Canadian industrial production comparable to 1952 levels, the whole country is a museum - and not a small feat for a nation with a history that can be written on the front of a postage stamp... and usually is.  What Canada needs is factories providing real jobs pumping out real items like fridges, stoves and TVs,  not another pet project museum.

 

Isn't it time to shoot the sacred cows and get down to business?  With the fall in oil price and hence the fall in bulk transportation costs, the last great obstruction to China's genocide of Canada's industrial base is gone.  And with this crazy long term trade agreement signed, an armada of bulk carriers, teeming with slave labour goods and gizmos from Shanghai are already powering their way across the Pacific Ocean like a guided missiles.

 

There is only one way ahead:  ban all imports from nations using slave camps like China, wipe away minimum wage, close down all welfare for the scroungers and restore the population of Canada to full employment... or the next museum will not be for sport, it'll be for industry and jobs.

 

Robert L Thompsett

Aylmer