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In many respects, the elderly people in our community are not treated with respect. I believe we as a community forget too soon what the generation before us has done for us. Perhaps if we remembered what they have done even in the last 50 years, we would respect them more and show more appreciation for them.
I value choice in long-term care. Seniors should be allowed to choose what type of long-term care they prefer, whether that be home care, public care, non-profit care or for-profit care.
Each person has a unique history, and our long-term care system should reflect those varied identities and needs. A fully public system of long-term care cannot provide the personalized religious, cultural or ethnic long-term care setting that many seniors want.
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Elderly people are the ones who were mainly involved in the foundation of our community and have given us many things. Then we turn around and make sure that hospices provide euthanasia as if the elderly are worthless now. All life is sacred, and we should seek to protect it.
GABRIEL VANDERMAAREL
BRANTFORD, ONT.
WHY ALL THE OT?
Re: Fed workers rack up the OT; Score hundreds of millions of dollars: Documents, Sept. 18
This article shows me that we are paying way too much for government workers. Public servants are whining about having to show up at the office three days a week instead of two, claiming they are more productive working from home. Really.
The public service has grown by about 40 per cent since 2015 and yet service is slower and, as the article states, the OT payouts are horrendous. Why? With more people supposedly doing the work, there shouldn’t be the need for any OT except for a few departments like policing. If you’re more productive at home, why the OT?
Sorry, but the stories just aren’t adding up. Taxpayers are being hosed by a bloated, entitled public service and it’s time to rein them in.
SANDY JOHNSTON
GREELY
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