Re: “Gray jay named our national bird,” Nov. 17.
I’m certain that I speak for all right-thinking Canadians in expressing my shock and disgust at the election of the gray jay as Canada’s national bird.
How could this have happened? The popular vote clearly favoured the loon, with the gray jay a distant third. How could our electoral process have failed to choose the loon, a fine and noble bird with decades of distinguished public service as the emblem of our dollar coin (not to mention the beloved voice of the Hinterland TV wildlife vignettes) over the gray jay, a known campground and picnic-table thief and unrepentant agitator?
This gadfly jaybird has no experience whatsoever and will without a doubt lead the country to ruin. Such a character has no place in the bird house — my gracious, have you heard what it’s been tweeting? Even its nickname, the whiskey jack, is redolent with moral turpitude.
It’s time for the people of Canada to exercise our democratic rights and make sure this gray jay never takes office. Loonatics of Canada — take to the streets!
Richard Lambert
Metchosin
