Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor for Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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Ready for a costume change

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Canada is preparing for Mr. Dress Up. This year should hopefully be the final year that Justin Trudeau dresses up for the Calgary Stampede and parade. The voters of Alberta and Canada have low polling for costumed characters. To see an urban cowboy pretending to be Albertan for a day or so is painful to all tax paying Canadians. Is an eight second ride set up for this pretend cowboy? Carpetbaggers of old were run out of town, tarred and feathered on a rail. A federal election is overdue.

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Wayne Robertson

(He does love any excuse to play dress up.)

The toxic waste online

Re: May 21 SUN editorial “Stop ‘bothsidesing’ Israel-Hamas war”

When I heard the social media chat room Tik Tok was going to be banned in the U.S., I naturally wondered what all the fuss was about. So, I logged on and soon grasped that its content was grossly tilted in favour of the Hamas tunnel rats at the expense of the Israeli state. Its major political sin? One siding! Now we learn that so-called ‘bothsidesing’ can also constitute a venal political sin. Who knew? 

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Orest Slepokura

(If that was the worst thing you saw on Tik Tok count yourself lucky.)

Tighten up gun laws

Oh boy! Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance) has just announced greater legal action to combat the huge number of cars stolen in Canada everyday. Her crackdown includes legislative and regulatory changes improving tougher penalties on auto thefts connected to organized crime, money laundering and violence.  Why hasn’t her and Trudeau’s Liberal Government implemented these same tougher laws and penalties associated with illegal firearm sale, possession and crimes committed with any type of firearm?  Isn’t a firearm more dangerous than a car?

Robert J. Moskal

(In this part of the country such a statement won’t make you many friends.)

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Fed up with all the taxes

Regarding the boondoggle that is the Green Line LRT:  Naheed Nenshi says the three levels of government should pay the potential $20 billion, yes, $20 billion. That’s the city taxpayers, provincial taxpayers, and the Canadian taxpayers. Here’s news for you Nenshi: THEY’RE ALL THE SAME TAXPAYERS! Boy, it didn’t take long for Nenshi to adopt the NDP playbook of spend, spend, borrow, tax and spend what’s left. Enough already. We taxpayers and maxed out. Just look at the property tax increases this year. This started on Nenshi’s watch. Not surprisingly Naheed is blaming everyone else for this mess. Never his fault, someone else is to blame. Thank goodness he’s not the premier. If he was, we taxpayers would be on the hook for the never-ending cost increases for pet projects. I fully agree with the UCP government, no more taxpayer’s money. Gondek, manage within your budgets.

Tom Burns

(Fingers crossed the Green Line can be built with the money the City has now.)

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