Why is it that others can learn from history, but our fearless leader cannot? Castro seems to have noticed what a failure socialism has been and has now publicly said so. It remains to be seen if he will follow that with actions but his admission I thought was powerful considering who he is. This letter of mine was published in the National Post this morning. A friend said it was read on the air by Jerry Agar on CFRB1010 too to his great surprise given he was reading it too so I guess he figured I have cornered the market on media? ; -)

Here is as written and as published (interesting I consider the published one actually stronger against Harper).

As submitted:

Side by side this morning I see the old socialist Castro finally admitting he was wrong now that he sees the results, and a younger Harper promoting yet another massive pork barrel project despite having seen the results of such socialist policies. Ya win some and ya lose some.

Jean Chrétien, who had earlier 'seen the light' and massively turned around public finances here that had been devastated by an open admirer of Castro, Trudeau and Mulroney who had continued Trudeau's trend, was unfortunately followed by Harper who has reversed us back to a course towards socialism.

Depending on how serious Cuba is about moving away from socialism perhaps someday Canadians will be flocking to Cuba for more than just the sun, that is unless they see the problems but do not reject the old ways as the current government here has.