YOU SAID IT: Citizens should pay for LRT mess?

CITIZENS SHOULD PAY FOR LRT MESS?

So let me try to get this straight: City of Ottawa politicians (past and current) screwed up the purchase, installation and operation of the LRT to the tune of millions of dollars, yet they want to pass on their incompetence by increasing our property taxes and raising rates to ride their transportation vehicles?

Do they really believe that Ottawa taxpayers and riders are that stupid? Citizens are not to blame.

DON DAY
OTTAWA

REALITY CHECK

Watching person after person getting scammed on the Taylor Swift concert tickets does not leave me curled up in a ball rocking in a corner.

Instead it reeks of having too much. While food banks are crying for help, you think it’s OK to spend thousands on a luxury and I should have an absolute meltdown because you got burned.

Sorry, suck it up, buttercup.

I do feel for those who can’t put food on the table in these trying times.

WAYNE BOYCE
CARLETON PLACE

DEFENDING RANDY

In a recent interview, Minister Jean-Yves Duclos bent over backwards to defend Liberal caucus colleague Randy Boissonnault by saying everything was all just a matter of some confusion and that Randy had apologized. Justin Trudeau also defended him. I think Boissonault has become an absolute joke. Among other things, he still hasn’t told us who or where to find this “other” Randy.

Though he is out of cabinet, this says everything you need to know about their ethics and integrity. It’s simply business as usual for them.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE
ORLÉANS

ACT FAST, JUSTIN!

Now that Justin Trudeau in a Liberal video has admitted “he could have acted faster” in dealing with Canada’s immigration problems, will the prime minister now finally admit he has a “could have acted faster” problem in general? You can put at the top of the list “could have acted faster” in stepping down as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

CHRIS ROBERTSON
STONY PLAIN, ALTA.