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Senator Don Plett, Leader of the Opposition

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Published Works

OPINION: In defence of Canada Day, Sir John A. Macdonald… and Pierre Trudeau

An opinion piece by Senator Don Plett, published in The Carillon on June 30, 2021. History, it is said, is written by the victors. The push to recognize Canada’s history – pure and unvarnished – has been building for years. In 2008, then Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an apology on behalf of the Government of Canada for the Residential School Policy, whose consequences he recognized as "profoundly negative", and established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The TRC went on to doc…
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OPINION: Trudeau Government's Summer Jobs Grant Application Requirement is Discrimination

Published in "The Carillon", March 10, 2018. In January of this year, I wrote a letter to Minister Patty Hajdu regarding the Government’s discriminatory Summer Jobs Grant program requirement. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Minister has not yet responded. The mandatory attestation is discrimination in every sense of the word. For a church, religious organization, or any organization, for that matter, to have to explicitly assert in the application that they support, among other things, “women’s…
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Feds Response to Churchill is Obstruction

In May, the only land link connecting Churchill with the rest of Canada was washed out by a once-in-200-year flood. The damage to the Hudson Bay Railway was, by any measure, catastrophic. The loss of the rail line has left northern Manitoba communities stranded, without access to affordable food, fuel and other critical supplies.

By all accounts, Churchill and its people have been ignored by those who have the power and the duty to protect it; cast adrift to fend for itself. It is a disaster that has been conveniently ignored by the Liberal government. It has become patently clear that the prime minister is turning his back and thumbing his nose at this vulnerable and isolated population...

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Anti-Christian Bigotry has Become Politically Acceptable

We, as a society, have come a long way when it comes to protecting our citizens from discrimination. Earlier this year, Quebec's proposed ban on religious symbols was squashed, and just recently, an NBA team owner was banned from the association for life and fined $2.5 million for making racist comments.

We truly have come a long way, especially considering where we came from. Prominent Canadian universities used to impose strict quotas on Jewish students in the 1930s and '40s, and many law schools and medical schools would require higher marks from Jewish students. Some law firms and hospitals would simply deny their applications. Until the 1960s, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto was denied status as a teaching hospital...

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