YOU SAID IT: Stop it, Mr. Trump

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STOP IT, MR. TRUMP

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Dear Mr. Trump:

I, like you and many millions of Canadians, recognize that the child who is running our country is a joke and commands zero respect for the damage he has inflicted on Canada, both socially and economically, over the last decade.

I believe that your recent attack on Canada is aimed at Justin Trudeau and not at Canadians in general, and that you know that annexation of Canada is next to impossible.

As much as I agree with you and have had some good chuckles over your toying with the boy prime minister, I have to respectfully ask you to stop. Your rhetoric is having a negative effect on our country, in that it is providing the prime minister with a platform on which to appear to be a great Canadian leader, with his hypocritical and hollow grandstanding in response to your threats to Canada.

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Your aggression toward all of us simply enforces his heroic leader façade. On behalf of all long-suffering Canadians, I would ask that you refrain from any further attacks/threats.

Soon we will have a new prime minister (Pierre Poilievre) whom you can respect, at which point we can return to being the dependable allies that we have always been to each other.

BRIAN JOYNT
OTTAWA

MAKE DISCOUNTED PILTS A PAIN

Re: Court sides with federal government in dispute with Ottawa over payments in lieu of taxes, online, Feb. 20

What a surprise!

Take alternative action. If, as the court stated, it is “reasonable” for the feds to pay a “discounted” rate of Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILTs) to the city, then, by extension, it is also “reasonable” for the feds to receive a “discounted” quality and/or quantity of services from the city.

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No need to make any public announcements.

But what would that look like?

Snow on streets around federal buildings would be the last to be removed (let them live like the rest of us); nearby sidewalks cleared or patched last; more of those ongoing eternal construction barriers interfering with federal access/egress; garbage and recycling pickup “discounted” too. You get the idea. No need to say anything.

DYAN CROSS
OTTAWA

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