{"id":131151,"date":"2025-05-29T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/05\/29\/letter-to-the-editor-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:30:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/05\/29\/letter-to-the-editor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"letter to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the last Federal election why did our political leaders not pick up on the prevailing mood of Canadians? Accepting the U.S. as our eleventh province would resolve all our differences. Donald Trump would make a fine Lieutenant Governor once he had sworn allegiance to King Charles, Mary Simon, and, of course, the CBC!<\/p>\n<p>He might feel bewildered that his new King actually resides in a far distant country, but that will only make him even more Canadian. He may need to get used to that prevailing Canadian oxymoron &mdash; that we are a nation of extreme moderation, but he&rsquo;ll adjust!<\/p>\n<p>Think of it &mdash; Canada extending from the far reaches of the Arctic to the southern edges of the continent and the Gulf of Canada! This union can&rsquo;t help but make Canada Great Again!<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think, Donald? A looney for your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Donald?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm &mdash; short attention span.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ron Kilby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smithers<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>letter writer curious about mood of election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":131153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>letter to the editor - The Interior News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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