Dear Editor,
Re: “Playing Trump card may happen,” Letters, July 6.
I could not agree more with Alan Halliday’s letter to the editor regarding Coun. Derek Dang’s warning about “going Donald Trump.”
Any attempt at a fair and equitable discussion regarding concerns affecting our community, without racist innuendos, seems impossible and falls on deaf ears. It seems freedom of speech works only in one direction.
Voting after all these years is becoming a heavy burden — I fear that we will end up with more of the same, or worse.
Identity politics, a government beholden to its “stakeholders,” greed, opportunism, shadow-flipping, tax evasion, Chinese-only signs, Mandarin-only strata meetings, non-resident births with birthright citizenship, endless demolition and construction noise, empty houses, housing unaffordability, destruction of our neighbourhoods… all this and more in this microcosm called Richmond.
Is there any wonder then, that the likes of Donald Trump as presidential hopeful and Brexit are current realities?
N. McDonald
Richmond
