Dear Editor
I don’t think I’m alone in my belief that many newspapers will not print quite a few letters because of that thing called political correctness. What is political correctness but a means of stiffing freedom of the written word, freedom to practice independent thought? It is a way to practice emotional blackmail, to bring people to their knees.
Once a government is spineless enough to let itself be turned into a cringing toady to special interest groups, it will create a nasty backlash in time, political correctness or not.
A pity it is that so few Canadians, which includes all governments, know much about the history of this country. If history were well known there would not be tearing down of statues, but the putting up of more.
There are so many well and carefully researched books on the history of Western Canada alone that there is no excuse not to know our own history.
I have re-read Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner. It should be required reading in schools, particularly in the West.
Christine Pike
Waseca
