Dear Mr President,

Sir, everyday I hear nothing but good things about you and my heart truly goes out to wish the very best to you and your young family. This will be one hell of a ride for all of you as well as all the people on this continent and perhaps even on this small very fragile planet. But you know, right now all the details are still pretty fuzzy and unclear but most of all, Mr. President things look kind of scary.

I hope you are right about your convictions and your dreams and most of all I hope you withstand the next four years.

More than any of us you will need the very best minds on your side and I wish you well with that. I also wish I could feel the same confidence with my government as even I have in you, but alas it would seem no one wants the job or perhaps those that could help here in Canada see gain in other pursuits. But I hold out that someone somewhere in this nation, might take your lead and come forward with their ideas to help our nation in an unbiased way even if it means a lot of hard work and thankless honesty.  If nothing else, Canadians are a stubborn opinionated lot and we are seldom afraid to share this with anyone who will listen but for a strong honest political leader, we can still only hope.

If  by some miracle you manage to get enough people to agree with you and maybe save your people from the world economic tail spin don’t shut the rest of us out.  We like sharing with our neighbours (or neighbors) to the south. Not only do we have a common land mass to share with you, but we have always looked to you for a lot of our shared dreams and ideas and I certainly hope its for our friendship as well.

People may question your motives, they may resist your methods to change, or hold you accountable for things you never did; everyone will criticize constantly and in the same breath wonder why you’re not doing more; your detractors will see your failings, deliberately misunderstand your intentions, and most of all forget that you are only human and I will probably in an unthinking moment yet to come, be one of these people and for that I’m sorry.

So good luck, my friend. May your days be many and your troubles be few.