We have rights and freedoms that are the envy of many

By Letter to the Editor on January 17, 2020.

The squeaking wheel will always get the grease.

Sadly those who make the wheels squeak are often malcontents with thin skin who take offence needlessly. In that regard they take to social media to air their perceptions. As a result they get others to sympathize and soon they get laws that dilute our freedoms. The end result is political correctness which is slowly and incrementally driving our country to pass laws that, if we don’t stop this nonsense will drive us to the same level of intolerance of opinions as countries like Iran, China, Russia and others that use intolerance to muzzle free expression. Our brave warriors would turn over in their graves if they knew the direction we are going.

In this country we have rights and freedoms that are the envy of many people in the world. However, if we keep watering down our rights – like the saying of Merry Christmas – we will soon our rights to think or speak our minds because of a few who will feel slighted at the smallest utterance. Get over it and learn to use common sense, reason, patience and understanding. Learn to see how others around you live and open your hearts and minds. Malcontents, will, sadly, look at the negative side and never see the sunny side of the street.

Canada is the most welcoming country I know of. We welcome all newcomers from different cultures and speaking all languages. I would not have it any other way. Let us all count our blessings.

We must continue on a path of forward thinking to reinforce our rights and freedoms.

W. Korzyniowski

Medicine Hat

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