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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Letters to the Editor

The Globe and Mail

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Toronto ON M5V 2S9

To the editor,

Re this newspaper’s Saturday December 13 editorial, “Two words: Carbon. Tax.”

To quote US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “I like to pay taxes. With them,

I buy civilization.” Of course, we all know that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has never met a

tax he liked, even taxes dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of the environment.

Harper sometimes speaks of the invisible hand of the market, as described in Adam Smith’s

opus, The Wealth of Nations. Would that be the same invisible hand that reneged on the Kyoto

Accord ratification, so proudly waiving away Canada’s environmental responsibility to the

world? Or are we talking about the hand that jerked out of Carrie’s grave at the end of her

unfortunate series of events?

If it is in fact Harper’s hand—and not Carrie’s—of which we speak, then perhaps it is more

appropriate to imagine his penis jerking out of the grave, symbolic of his screwing Canada dead

by ripping out its human rights while at the same time he and his gang of crooks serially rubber

stamp secret, robber-baron trade treaties.

However, criticism purely for the sake of criticizing—devoid of any constructive critical

feedback—is as useless, empty and meaningless as the Canadian-flag lapel pin Harper wears to

betoken “his love for Canada,” while at the same time he legally robs Canada of its natural

resources on behalf of the transnational corporations he really works for.

Yours truly,

Rolf Auer