Dear Danny,
I am one of two first-generation Canadians in my family. But I am also a 7th generation Newfoundlander. My family has fought and bled and died for our nation. I had two great-uncles at Beaumont Hamel; one from each side of my family. One was wounded and one died. I believe I have the inherent right to speak for our people. I have to tell you that there was a time that I was proud to be both a Newfoundlander and a Canadian. But now I am just one - a Newfoundlander. The once great nation that took us in has withered. Canada begins to turn away from that great communal nation it was. It fragments into petty groups that offer bitter comfort to those in need. It beats plowshares into swords and regales in false glories.
You have two options before you. You must campaign against the Harper path and beat back the darkness that would follow him. If that should fail you must build high the bulwark that will shield us from the Harperites would sweep out of the West and engulf us all. Your response to recent cuts in arts funding does give me faint hope you will indeed rise to the clarion call.
James Butler
Black Bank, Bay St. George, NL
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