Corporate Canada
Christopher Pollon “The United States is in dire need of rare minerals and fresh water. Guess who has them?– Great article about Donald Trump's pursuit of Canadian resources, but it doesn't include what bothers me. As Canadian citizens, we say “elbows up,” but will our corporations stand by us when they are under threat? Do we feel that our corporations – and their leaders – are more loyal to democracy than our American equivalents? I think many of them would have no problem with a vassal state if it allowed them to avoid Trump's wrath. They may just be looking. such a transition period that least disturbs them. We need to convince our elite that there is no way back to outside control.
Robert Hope
Owen Sound, Ontario
Fight or flight
I don't think the title of David Moscrop's essay “Air Canada flight attendants faced off against Ottawa and won.“That's for sure. The flight attendants won ground pay equal to an extra thirty and thirty-five minutes depending on the size of the plane, with a slight increase in the future. That's it. If flights are delayed, nothing. The only thing they won was the exposure of collusion between Ottawa and Air Canada. Maryse Tremblay, for example, the chair of the Canadian Labor Relations Board, who issued the order to return to work during the strike, used to be legal counsel for Air Canada. If anything Because of this comes the strike, I hope the Liberals will think twice before interfering with the right to strike, which is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Ilan Levi
Calgary, AB
Cruel Intentions
Michelle Shepard”Where cruelty matters(July/August) provides an informed and grimly sobering account of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. As Shepard writes, it is too easy to think of Guantanamo Bay as an exclusive zone, a special exclusion zone reserved only for “the worst of the worst.” To think of prison in this way is to reproduce the language of its architects and apologists. It is harder, but more important, to remember that the prison's enormous and costly reliance on state-sponsored surveillance, intimidation, coercion, and violence makes it an extension of the broader prison logic that governs the punitive, unforgiving, and xenophobic nation that invented it. In its brutality and permanence, Guantanamo is America.
David L. Clark
Toronto, Ontario
Greek tragedies
I was interested in Michael LaPointe's story “More love“(September/October), about a young couple unexpectedly traveling from Athens to the Greek islands. Many years ago, I took a ferry from Crete to the port of Piraeus near Athens with several temporary traveling companions. Sleep was impossible, so I told my companions that I was going to the back deck to find a bench in the fresh air. Near where I lay, two young women, their heads together, were talking quietly, but intense conversation. I dozed off to In the middle of the night I was disturbed by voices and people moving around me. One of the women who were nearby was talking anxiously to several members of the Greek crew. It was like a waking dream, and I dozed off again. When morning came, I woke up with a clear thought: another woman jumped up, and I saw that I was alone on the upper deck, the ship was slowly circling in the south. direction. Suddenly the ferry resumed its course and we continued north to mainland Greece. I never saw the young woman who was so upset during the night, but the image of her face remained with me, and we never knew what happened to her companion.
John Crump
Ottawa, Ontario
Fast Letters to the Editor: December 2025 first appeared on Walrus.
