Letters: June 19, 2019

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Liam Richards/Postmedia Network file

Out of touch

The NDP, defying financial prudence and common sense altogether, is promising to blow $10 billion on universal pharmacare on top of the billions currently wasted on maintaining the world’s most inefficient health-care bureaucracy. They can’t even pay the 50% of health care they were supposed to cover when they introduced it decades ago as it would bankrupt our nation in a matter of a few years. Jagmeet Singh is correct that we have a health-care crisis, but it has nothing to do with services, it’s funding the monstrosity that it’s become. Painfully little money flows to actual doctors and real nurses as the health-care bureaucracy has become a bloated beast with taxpayer-subsidized pensions for life. We cannot afford the system that we have and Singh’s idea to boost spending reveals how naive he is. We already have an incompetent man in the PMO, we don’t need another.

Barry Banek

That’s the NDP way, promise the sun, the moon and the stars. Ask them how much it costs and how does that cost gets covered — and they have no answers. 

Business killer

(Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau is out to kill small business Canada-wide. No fork, knives or spoons for take-out. No water bottles, no coffee cups (lined with plastic), how will all his hired protesters get their Starbucks coffee and litter the roads? Trudeau is going to be a one-time use PM this October if businesses start to wake up? The cost of heating and cooking will be so off the charts too with the carbon tax and all the deliveries and merchandise they use will all be added to their costs.

Noelle Brown

Another distraction for voters.

Slam dunk

The Toronto Raptors have united all of Canada from coast-to-coast. This is completely opposite of what Justin Trudeau is doing. Trudeau keeps picking fights with the provinces and proved that he’s unfit to lead this country after his speech about banning plastic straws. On the world stage, he and his sidekick Christia Freeland have made Canada a laughing stock every time they open their mouths. For the betterment of this great country, we should get rid of Trudeau and get the Raptors in Parliament.

Len Persson

While we love what the Raptors have done, let’s keep them on the hardwood.

How it plays out

Here’s what’s going to happen: the pipeline is approved because $4.5 billion of taxpayers’ money has bought it already. B.C. goes crazy (the hypocrite province, mass exporters of coal that China burns.) They decide no to voting Libs because they are betrayed, and will never vote Cons, so they vote Green. Andrew Scheer gets a minority. Now the Quebec Libs and the B.C. Greens are eventually in charge with a handshake. Take me now, God.

Paul McKay

Bite your tongue.

Rev it up

The West needs a political crisis to shock the Trudeau Liberals and their Quebec pals. I would love to see (Trudeau) with a real crisis on his hands and see how he acts. Would Quebecers come flooding west begging these provinces to stay in Confederation? I think not!

J.D. Round

No, they’d just bid us adieu.

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