April 16, 2025 - The critical 12-day home-stretch for Canada Election 2025 begins with this Canadian Filipino Net edition.
At this juncture in the campaign, it is not surprising to learn from poll surveys that most Canadians remain anxious and feel betrayed by Trump America and his personal tariff war, waged globally without rhyme or reason.
Fortunately, the U.S. Senate does not agree with the US President on imposing tariffs on imports from Canada. On April 2, it passed the Senate resolution that “”would end Trump’s emergency declaration on fentanyl trafficking that underpins tariffs on Canada.”
It is doubtful, however, the US House of Representatives could muster the same courage.
Like most countries – except Russia, North Korea and Belarus – Canada is caught in Trumps’s trade war maelstrom . Disruptive, indeed.
The one powerful tool Canadians have is to vote on April 28 for the Canadian leader who will best “take on Trump and sustain a government that is unifying, standing up for Canada and is taking focused action to build a better economy."
The two seriously contending candidates are Liberal Mark Carney and Conservative Pierre Poilievre. Their credentials, communication styles, outlook, attitude and other leadership qualities are in contrast, as elaborated in Eleanor Laquian’s Op-Ed and Rey Pagtakhan’s previous commentary (24th Prime Minister) and the present one in this edition.
This is an extraordinary federal election, a crucial political moment!. It summons us all to exercise our right to vote – the crown jewel of our democracy.
And to remember when casting our precious votes the time-honoured civic teaching, ‘public office is a public trust’ – the bond of unwritten yet binding social contract between the electorate and the elected – that the elected leader and government will care for the governed and serve the public common good, not crave for more power and serve one’s personal interest and ideological agenda devoid of humanity.
The onus on us is to vote wisely. To vote not for your friend but for the public friend. Not for partisanship for your political party but for the country. How eloquent of former President of the Philippine Commonwealth (as a colony of the USA) Manuel Quezon to famously say: “My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”
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