Dear Editor,
Re: “Raising flag raises irem,” News, Oct. 5.
I completely disagree that any level of Canadian government should celebrate other countries’ independence days. Of course, people with origins in other countries, can celebrate them if they like.
How would Canadians whose families were killed by Hitler (Holocaust), by Stalin (forced famines and Siberian camps), by Pol Pot in Cambodia, by Mao Zedong, by the Ottoman Empire (Armenian Holocaust), and all thoughtful and informed Canadians view the holding of local ceremonies other than those to remember the victims of these horrible events?
As for the courageous Louis Huang, I salute you for your calling a spade a spade, by pointing out the presence of hundreds of Chinese associations in Canada — not the respected charitable fraternities and benevolent associations we always admired since the early 1900s — that have been cunningly organized and supported by the Chinese Communist government to influence and threaten Chinese-Canadians and Canadian values and security.
Meena Wong, my sympathy to you and my respect for your courageous speaking out against this and similar travesties of common decency and respect.
Mary Beaussart
Richmond
