CHP
Commentary

​Do you remember the crazy world of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”? I read the book as a child and remember Alice always feeling out of her element because everything was backwards. I can’t help but wonder if Canada today is “Wonderland”. I seem to be constantly feeling out of touch with Canada’s reality.

​Along the ridge of the Rocky Mountains, in both Canada and the USA, there is an invisible dividing line that separates the waters that run out into the Pacific Ocean from those that flow into either the Atlantic or the Arctic Oceans. It’s called the Great Divide. Two raindrops—depending on which side of the Divide they fall—can begin their journeys only a few feet apart and end up separated by thousands of miles.

​You need to get a government licence for many things in Canada; so far, publishing your thoughts is not one of them. But warning shots have been fired…

​Myths can be defined as “widely-held beliefs or suppositions that are not factually true”. What people believe–whether true or not–guides their thinking and contributes to their unique understanding of the world. A person’s world view generally affects the choices he or she makes: whether to marry, what to read, what activities on which to spend time, how to spend one’s money and how to vote.

How many of you, prior to having children, approached your MP, MPP or your local councillors and school boards to discuss how your children would be brought up?

“Canada is having a “senior’s moment’; we’re forgetting that actions have consequences.”

​Canadians are less safe now than we would have been if David Elderfield had been allowed to finish his dream. The dream that turned into a nightmare for him.

2019 is past and 2020 is knocking at the door! Every one of us can look at the past year (or the past 20 years) and see things we could have / should have done differently. Not one of us sees the future clearly, at least not in all the stark detail with which it shall surely come upon us.

A few snowstorms, some winter ice and definitely some long dark nights but the shortest day of the year is behind us now; around many tables, families will soon be gathering to share in festive celebrations of Christmas. We in the CHP have weathered the storm that was the 2019 General Election and in another week we’ll be thrust into the challenges and opportunities of a new year.

This decade is coming to an end; the second of the “new” millennium. Time marches on and this millennium has brought changes that were not even imagined 20 years ago. The law of unintended consequences has overtaken much of our culture.

In a quick Google search of “conversion therapy”, the first 9 links are to articles either opposed or hysterically opposed to the concept of providing assistance to people seeking to leave a homosexual or transgender lifestyle. Like many other issues related to sexuality and world view, socio-political leftists have embraced a narrow view restricting the right of any person seeking deliverance from unwanted same-sex attraction and behaviour to engage competent, professional help.

Sadly, the world was reminded this past Friday of the threat of terrorism that could arise at any time. The heroics in England on the London Bridge reminded me again of the power of one person who refuses to submit.