Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor for Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

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Canada has gone from financial stability; having a leader respected around the world; and being a more united country — under Stephen Harper — to the exact opposite under Justin Trudeau.

Who can forget Trudeau’s promised sunny ways that for many have turned into dark, unaffordable days. Trudeau’s reckless, ideologically driven spending has pushed Canada ever closer to the fiscal cliff, while indebting future generations.

Trudeau pushing his “diversity is our strength DEI/woke policies” has weakened the military and RCMP, with both having recruiting and leadership problems. Trudeau’s mass immigration policies have driven up inflation and put serious burdens on housing, health care and social services.

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Hopefully Canadians have learned that elections can have dire consequences and they will think carefully before voting next year.

LARRY COMEAU

(If we haven’t learned that, we get whatever chaos that follows.)

RIGHT MOVE, BUT DON’T BE FOOLED

Re: Tribunal orders rail workers back on the job; union says it will appeal, online, Aug. 24

While there are some who believe this was the wrong move, I beg to differ. Why is it the LCBO was deemed an “essential service” during COVID and not the railroads now? I’m sure we could survive without booze or drive over to Quebec for a fix if it were that dire. However, to shut down an industry that provides the transportation of food, agriculture and thousands of other products would have been beyond crippling. This Liberal government has done enough to hobble our economy with their policies, so to have let this go any further would have been inexcusable.

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Of course, the Liberals will pat themselves on the back, saying how they stepped in and saved the day, all of the potential job losses from lack of consumer goods to sell brought back from the brink of disaster, so please vote for them … They’ve got our backs, right?

Don’t fall for it; this government doesn’t do anything for Canadians unless they think they’ll get something out of it.

SANDY JOHNSTON

(Maybe they would catch on that they are losing their jobs by not helping us out. Only the next election will tell.)

Not exactly the same

Re: Lorne Gunther’s opinion comparing UCP rail plans to the Calgary Green Line LRT.  There is a huge multi-billion dollar difference between the two he is overlooking. Calgary council is committing over $6 billion to build the short line to nowhere (I would have thought you could save big bucks by NOT tunnelling downtown, after all no other LRT lines run underground downtown, but that’s just me.) By contrast the provincial government is trying to spend the time to develop a master plan – no build.

Keith Hamilton

(Planning for the Green Line clearly wasn’t rooted in reality.)

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