Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor for Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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HOSED AT THE PUMPS

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While many countries are lowering or eliminating taxes on gas temporarily to help consumers, Prime Minister Mark Carney is simply “monitoring the situation”. How kind of him. His Liberals are responsible for the mess this country has become. Many Canadians are having a hard time keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table, yet all he will do is monitor the high gas prices. When will Canadians wake up? Carney’s not going to do anything to help the suffering unless it benefits him. This is not leadership. Canada could be self-sufficient as far as oil production goes and we don’t belong to OPEC so there’s no excuse for Canadians to be paying the price we are at the pumps. The U.S. refines most of our oil even though we have at least 16 refineries in operation; unfortunately not many are equipped to handle the heavy crude. Why isn’t Carney actually investing in Canada? He claims he is, but those are only words.

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SANDY JOHNSTON

(Spending money to reduce how reliant we are on the U.S. would be money very well spent.)

FRUSTRATED FRENCH CANADIANS

Re: YOU SAID IT: Can’t believe the hissy fit, letter to the editor, online, March 31

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I recently read the comments of two individuals on the subject of Michael Rousseau’s use (or rather non-use) of French in his condolence speech following the deaths of the two Air Canada pilots at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

Hissy fit? Petty and childish? Last time I checked, Canada is still a bilingual country, the two official languages being English and French. Air Canada is an internationally recognized company and, by extension, represents Canadian values. If the co-pilot (from Ontario) was entitled to the entire speech in English, why then wasn’t the French-speaking pilot from Quebec not entitled to at least one or two sentences in French, especially since Mr. Rousseau has supposedly had 600-odd hours of French classes? It is this type of condescending and arrogant attitude that so frustrates French Canadians. And it has been going on for centuries.

I invite every Canadian to visit Quebec City’s historical neighborhood. As you stand in the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires courtyard, where Samuel de Champlain’s house once stood, let the history soak in. I think you’ll agree that French Canada has earned its place in the Canadian family.

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JOHANNE GRAHAM

Montreal

(The history is there, but so is the historic request to separate from the country.)

Indoctrination

The idea that you can remove politics from the classroom or make it ‘politically neutral’ is completely ridiculous. You see, your beliefs are ‘political’, but my beliefs are ‘common sense’ and therefore unpolitical, so we need to remove your beliefs to make this place ‘politically neutral’. Anything added or omitted from the curriculum (or the way you deliver it) adds bias to the student’s way of thinking about the world. And the UCP has decided that UCP ideology must be taught in the classroom.

GARY ROYER

Calgary

(Don’t they say something about opinions and bottoms? Everyone has one and everyone thinks theirs smells nicer than everyone else’s.)

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