Editor,
Hopefully, a Mark Carney Liberal minority government will resist neo-liberally supporting the core (‘woke’) social issues — those of race, sexuality, gender, and unrestricted abortion access — while allowing many people to strain to pay for some of life’s basic necessities. That is essentially what the federal Liberal Party’s U.S. counterpart, the Democratic Party, has morphed into. Americans already have fiscally callous policies with the Republican Party; and Canadians already have that with the Conservative Party, especially with leader Pierre Poilievre.
There’s a very large and growing populace who are too overworked, worried and even angry about food and housing unaffordability, thus insecurity for themselves or their family — largely due to insufficient income.
Worsening matters, big businesses (via their lobbyists) can get, or are getting, unaccountably even bigger, defying both the very spirit and letter of government rules established to ensure a competitive marketplace, thus consumer affordability, by limiting concentrated ownership.
It really does seem there's little or no moral/human(e) accountability when huge profit is involved. "We are a capitalist nation, after all," the morally lame business-as-usual justification typically goes.
Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock
