Here are today’s Ottawa Sun letters to the editor.
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SWING AND A MISS
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Re: YOU SAID IT: Sunk by a one-year warranty, letter to the editor, online, July 28
Jimmy Breslin’s book Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? about the inaugural season of the stumbling, bumbling New York Mets comes to mind when considering the incredible ineptness displayed by Public Services and Procurement Canada in the purchase of military equipment.
In 1998, the federal Liberals purchased four obsolete, totally unreliable, second-hand diesel submarines from England for $750 million. You will also remember that the Liberal head of the Treasury Board, Scott Brison, tried to have the ship-building contract that had been awarded to Davie Shipbuilding cancelled in favour of Liberal favourite Irving Shipyards. The latest $5-billion contract awarded to Irving Shipyards has produced ships with severe mechanical failures and seawater flooding.
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Canadian taxpayers are left asking, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
BOB ERWIN
OTTAWA
BEST TO LEAVE BANK ALONE
Re: Keep it moving; Community advocates want end to parking on stretch of Bank, July 28
Let’s look at traffic congestion on Bank Street, particularly the portion running through the Glebe. No parking, more bike lanes, dedicated bus lanes and wider sidewalks were all mentioned as problem solvers.
Here’s what a driver encounters when entering the Glebe. You have a variety of unnecessary one-way streets, streets that were turned into dead ends, and, of course, you have two-way streets where you can exit, but not enter at one end. Parking is either nonexistent or very limited on side streets. Of course drivers have no other recourse but to use Bank Street.
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Let’s not forget Bank Street is one of the very few streets going south to exit the city. Try rejigging those streets running off Bank Street and leave the old girl alone.
MIKE PERREAULT
OTTAWA
THE COMMERCIAL GAMES ON CBC
Watching the Olympics on CBC is like having your nails pulled out. You get about 10 per cent sports and 90 per cent commercials. You get a full complement of advertising, then a little two-minute interview, then another full complement of advertising. I realize they are paying for us to see the Games, but this is overkill.
DIANE DAVIDSON
RUSSELL
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