Commentary
The outburst of hostility toward Wayne Gretzky because he is a friend of President Donald Trump is one of the most embarrassing manifestations of national immaturity that I have witnessed in my more than 50 conscient years as a Canadian citizen.
It is an elemental fact of civilized life that we develop all manner of relationships with all manner of people, and that these relationships may be based on a particular affinity and do not imply that the two parties are in overall agreement or entirely approve of everything that each other does.
I am a cordial acquaintance of more than 25 years of Donald Trump, and I am relieved that he is back in the White House and is re-establishing the United States as a country that maintains its borders, has emancipated itself from fatuous and destructive wokeism and the green terror that our government is still trying to impose upon us, and is constructively filling the vacuum created by the evaporation of the moral and political authority of the United States under his predecessors. That does not make me a mindless and uncritical acolyte of the president….