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Readers touch upon the GST ‘vacation’ and rebate cheques, Canada’s postal dilemma, the Montreal riots and extra within the Letters to the editor
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The Liberal authorities’s “GST vacation” and rebate cheques are ‘a useless try at re-election,’ letter author Richard Stonehouse says. Photograph by Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press
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‘Shame on these Liberal/NDP politicians’
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Re: Liberals to chop GST on beer, youngsters’s toys and Christmas timber — Catherine Lévesque, Nov. 21; Trudeau’s cynical GST ‘holiday’ that nobody requested for — Jamie Sarkonak, Nov. 22
So the shaky Liberal/NDP coalition is spending extra borrowed cash on the backs of already beleaguered taxpayers in a useless try for re-election. Relatively than deal with critical points (well being care, immigration, spiralling debt ranges) they select as soon as once more to bamboozle (they suppose) gullible Canadian voters.
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Not this time! Disgrace on these Liberal/NDP politicians for making an attempt to bribe voters with their very own cash. Taxpayers aren’t the collective lemmings they suppose they’re.
Richard Stonehouse, Delta, B.C.
Each small enterprise will now must recalibrate its newly GST-free merchandise, till February, once they should recalibrate them once more.
The confirmed potential of the Trudeau authorities to get completely every little thing flawed — even bribing voters — is nearly as spectacular as Donald Trump’s potential to root out probably the most unqualified candidates for working the U.S. authorities.
Mary Lou Finlay, Toronto
A information merchandise claimed seniors have been outraged at the potential of being excluded from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s $250 rebate cheque. As a senior I’m outraged on the blatant vote shopping for concerned in sending out any cheques. Civil servants should be paid to file the method, cheques should be printed and all should be mailed. An costly course of, a lot of which might be reclaimed at revenue tax time.
Roger Lenney, Oakville, Ont.
Translation of Liberal “GST holiday” and rebate cheques: Gimme your bank card. I wish to purchase you a beer.
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John P.A. Budreski, Whistler
‘Sign me disgusted’
Re: Montreal burns, Trudeau dances — Michael Higgins, Nov. 23
Justin “Nero” Trudeau danced away the evening whereas haters and traitors massed to precise their disdain for the rule of legislation and Canadian values disguised as these protesting in opposition to NATO and Israel’s defensive warfare in opposition to a bloodthirsty, immoral cadre of enemies.
Europe has seen a lot an excessive amount of of the lawlessness expressed below the banner of being pro-Palestinian supporters, in actuality, perpetrated by helpful Caucasian idiots, and extra so, by Islamist extremists with animus in the direction of their host international locations and hoping to throw Jewish Israelis into the ocean within the Center East. Canada’s native constabulary are unprepared or below resourced to cope with violent throngs.
In the identical approach, as has been stated advert nauseam that Jews are the canaries within the coal mine, the unrest in Europe is a sign that every one is dreadfully not properly in international locations with unmitigated and unvetted immigration, and the disruption we see there not solely is coming, it has arrived right here. The college encampments, assaults in opposition to property and other people and the burning of our Canadian flag attest to this.
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Somebody has to have the braveness and ethical compass to say sufficient is sufficient, and if the politicians of all ranges and the police in any respect ranges can’t or gained’t act, deliver within the military.
Signal me disgusted with our management and enraged and annoyed on the incapability to have entry to a recall course of to evict dancing Nero Trudeau from his submit.
Israel Lachovsky, Calgary
Our Canada Put up dilemma
Re: The one technique to save Canada Put up is to denationalise it — Matthew Lau, Nov. 27
You’re employed for a company that misplaced $748 million final 12 months however you truly count on them to pay you extra and lose much more cash? I’ve a suggestion for placing Canada Put up employees: go to work for a corporation that’s worthwhile.
We don’t want Canada Put up; we want an organization that can ship flyers at decrease price. Nobody wants mail anymore. The complete idea of a submit workplace is out of date.
We have to discover extra environment friendly methods of doing issues on this nation. Canada Put up? One of the best instance I can consider an out of date, inefficient company that must be put out of existence.
Invoice Stemp, Calgary
Matthew Lau has beneficial that Canada privatize Canada Put up. It’s unclear that this feature is on the market. Canada Put up serves many areas that can’t or won’t afford financial postal service. As soon as Canada Put up was privatized, the federal government must proceed subsidizing service in distant areas. There may be nothing left in Canada Put up that will be so engaging as to justify a brand new proprietor’s subsidizing service in distant areas and no new proprietor would wish to be sure by the union obligations that presently strangle Canada Put up.
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The federal government might try to present the entire of Canada Put up to its staff, however the staff must be paid an infinite sum to tackle the duty. And, in the event that they did, what assure would Canada obtain that the brand new entity would proceed to serve distant areas indefinitely? Ensures from economically bankrupt firms are nugatory.
So what can Canada do? It might buy distant supply companies from present non-public firms, provide to present the company to its staff, after which when that provide is declined, shutter Canada Put up fully. With a bit of luck, the grousing from aggrieved clients and staff of Canada Put up would subside pretty shortly. However allow us to face it, no political social gathering might be desperate to spend its political capital this manner till voters are demanding a repair. Apathy will doubtless prevail. Such is the dilemma we name Canada Put up.
Patrick Cowan, Toronto
The postal strike doesn’t matter in main centres. There are many supply choices there. For distant and northern Canadian communities, it means no supply for on-line orders/provides corresponding to Amazon. Small companies can’t ship their items out cost-effectively. This straight impacts our northern crafters, whose greatest season is true now.
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The beginning wage for a submit workplace assistant the place I reside is $18.44/hr. As a substitute of the GST vacation for booze and Christmas timber, pay the employees a good wage and get them again to work.
Valerie Gundersen, Creighton, Sask.
Matthew Lau’s assertion that Canada Put up needs to be privatized is simplistic at finest. Canada is a big far-flung nation. There’s a motive that FedEx and UPS don’t ship to huge areas of it. There isn’t any cash in it. Moreover, if it was privatized, the value for parcel supply would skyrocket past the technique of the common Canadian. It isn’t low cost to ship a bundle by Canada Put up but it surely’s cheaper than the alternate options. Canada Put up is a public service. We subsidize transit and roads. Why not Canada Put up?
Jane McCall, Ladner, B.C.
Have been protesters not breaching the peace?
Re: In Trudeau’s Canada, Ezra Levant arrested to guard pro-terrorist protesters — Tasha Kheiriddin, Nov. 25; and NP View: A modest proposal — restore order to our streets — Editorial, Nov. 27
Insurgent Information CEO Ezra Levant was arrested for “breaching the peace.” He did this by strolling throughout a avenue to the place folks with hidden faces have been making loss of life threats to Israel and Jews and taunting onlookers with a cosplay of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s closing moments. Levant’s goal, as a Jewish individual and a journalist, was to movie the hostile crowd and report on it. The police apparently frightened that his presence might incite the pro-Palestinian crowd to violence.
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If one individual merely strolling throughout a avenue to a hostile group is sufficient to be arrested for “breaching the peace,” then what about a big group of individuals travelling to a Jewish neighbourhood with a view to protest and threaten them? Is that not “incitement and breach of the peace” on steroids?
Why didn’t the police arrest the protest leaders, as they did Levant?
Anthony Dayton, Thornhill, Ont.
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Sorry Trudeau, this isn’t who we’re
Re: After all Trudeau would arrest Netanyahu, he has no ideas — Adam Pankratz, Nov. 21
“We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated, when requested if he would enable Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant to be arrested in the event that they got here to Canada. “This is just who we are as Canadians,” he stated.
That is simply who we’re not, PM Trudeau. You may have chosen to degrade Canadian values along with your egregious help of the clearly anti-democratic ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. Issuing warrants for Israeli authorities leaders combating a warfare to defend their nation from the Islamic Republic regime, which clearly requires the elimination of Israel (that’s the definition of “genocide”), sickeningly twists the ethical values of all Canadians who worth their freedom.
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Disgrace on Trudeau and International Minister Mélanie Joly for his or her harmful, cowardly feedback below the guise of the foundations of the ICC.
Paul Resnick, Toronto
I consider the suitable time period for Justin Trudeau’s superb phrases is “putting lipstick on a pig.”
What Trudeau is doing is what he all the time does: smoke and mirrors. By agreeing to the arrest warrants, he’s appeasing the Jew-haters, all of the whereas figuring out full properly that he won’t ever must make these arrests, for the reason that probabilities of Netanyahu and Gallant visiting Canada anytime quickly are nearly nil.
One may surprise the place all this respect for the rule of legislation was when Trudeau booted Jody Wilson-Raybould out of Cupboard for upholding the legislation within the SNC-Lavalin scandal or throwing up roadblocks in the way in which of the election interference inquiry or any of the opposite quite a few scandals which have dirty his tenure.
E. Joan O’Callaghan, Toronto
No less than Joe Biden and the White Home responded to the Worldwide Felony Court docket warrant in opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister shortly and decisively.
“The ICC issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous,” Biden stated. “Let me be clear once again: whatever the ICC might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.”
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That’s how a sane, common sense western democracy responds to this absolute craziness.
The dearth of clear, regular help Trudeau and the Liberals have proven for Israel and the Jewish neighborhood by this very darkish interval has been stunning and disgusting. In the meantime, the pro-Hamas hate-fest rallies proceed throughout this nation unabated.
If we had sufficient MPs in Ottawa (no matter social gathering) who had scruples, guts and conviction, there can be a non-confidence vote initiated instantly, and an election compelled now to lastly oust Trudeau (and his band of blind followers) from workplace. Canadians mustn’t have to attend one other 11 months.
Brad Shaddick, Newmarket, Ont.
‘Where is the justice?’
Re: Freedom Convoy protester Pat King discovered responsible of mischief in Ottawa — David Baxter, Nov. 22
The place is the justice when convoy organizer Pat King may very well be going through 10 years in jail for “mischief” whereas pro-Palestinian protesters, who’ve been setting fires, defacing Jewish buildings, smashing home windows and threatening Jewish college students on campus haven’t been arrested for his or her violence, which is way past “mischief”?
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The Palestinian protests have gone on for over a 12 months with nearly little to no motion from our federal authorities or some other legislation enforcement company to cease them. Sure, the truckers have been noisy and disruptive however they weren’t setting buildings on fireplace or threatening anybody. If any protest deserves the Emergencies Act being invoked, it’s the damaging pro-Palestinian ones.
What sort of nation have we change into when a peaceable protester will get jail time and damaging protesters go free? What sort of nation sends cash to organizations linked to terrorist teams whereas our veterans endure homelessness and untreated medical points that they developed once they have been combating for our Canada?
It’s time for Canadians to demand a cease to damaging behaviour and the easing of punishment for “mischief” makers.
Barbara Cantlie, Etobicoke, Ont.
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