Our disappearing sovereignty

U.S. guards at Canada’s rail hubs? April 20

If years from now, we discover that Prime Minister Stephen Harper turned out to be working for the U.S. government, who could be surprised?

He almost had Peter MacKay indenture us to Lockheed Martin for 65 ruinously expensive F-35s. When he isn’t marching lock-step with them into wars that are none of our business, he’s surrendering Canadian sovereignty.

Canada’s caving on FATCA, the draconian piece of U.S. legislation that allows the U.S. government to endlessly harass dual citizens living in Canada, is another example of Harper’s shameless capitulation.

If there were a country on earth that ought to have the right to plead an exception to a sovereignty-ignoring piece of legislation like FATCA surely it is Canada. Imagine the millions of dual citizens living in the U.S. surrendering their most private information to the Canadian government?

Ron Charach, Toronto

The United States plans to post armed agents in Canada, subject only to American laws to guard their borders at a distance. Sounds like the extraterritoriality imposed by Great Britain on its colonies in the 19th century.

Have we now become a colony?

Will Canadian armed agents be allowed into the U.S., subject only to Canadian law? Not for a million years, or 30 years when China takes over.