Dear Editor,

It is impossible to observe the G7 event planned for mid-June in Kananaskis, Alberta, without thinking of the mistreatment ordinary Canadians have received at the hands of U.S. authorities. The G7 leaders are supposed to work together to find “shared solutions”.

However, consider the woman jailed because she did not furnish an International Drivers license in Georgia even though she had a passport and valid driver’s license from Canada. Or the couple planning to walk the Appalachian Trail refused entry because border guards deemed they had insufficient clothing for a two week visit. Consider Trump’s bellicose racist slanders against Latin Americans who are expelled to foreign lands in atrocious conditions, without due process, even though they were trying to earn a better life for themselves and their families, in freedom, in the U.S.A..

So how do Canadians receive Trump at the G7? With open arms? Or with elbows up? Why is he, a convicted felon, being allowed entry into Canada, an old friend to the U.S.A. yet the very country he is openly seeking to undermine?

It is time that a petition with many thousands of signatures be delivered to the American Ambassador (with copies to MSNBC, Fox News, PBS, CBS, CNN and ABC). It may well be that protests will occur in Alberta, but for those of us unable to make it, there must be a way, perhaps many ways, that Canadians can communicate their discontent with the bully’s arrival.

Carl Hager, Gatineau