SUFFERING UNDER A REGIME
Trending on Twitter with the hashtag #TrudeauMustGo was a long lineup of thumbnail self-portraits submitted by Canadians sharing with their peers a mutual tale of what they had to endure owing to the Trudeau regime’s decision to scapegoat them for their temerity in resisting the COVID vaccine mandate. The portraits make it clear that notwithstanding a solid record of substantive achievements they were made to look and feel like abject pariahs and social outcasts. Not since Quebec’s Duplessis regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses in the 1950s have we seen a tactic this cynically and coldly divisive deployed to alienate normally respectable members of society.
Orest Slepokura
Calgary
(What’s incredible is that hashtag had staying power)
POLLUTION FREE
Re “Conservatives’ attempt to cancel carbon tax hikes fails in House of Commons” (Catherine Levesque, Sept. 28): Atlantic Canada was hit by the worst hurricane it has ever seen, and Canadians in parts of Ontario and western Quebec are still recovering after a derecho that pummelled the region with multiple tornadoes and downbursts bringing winds up to 190 km/h in May. An April report from the Institute for Sustainable Finance (ISF) based out of the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Kingston estimates the total cost of climate change to the Canadian economy at trillions of dollars by the end of the current century if global temperatures continue to rise unabated. Canada’s carbon pricing policy returns the money to households. Yet, Pierre Poilievre accuses the Liberals and NDP of being “the Costly Coalition” and wants to cancel the carbon price without offering a replacement policy that will cut greenhouse gas pollution at a lower cost. Poilievre thinks it is free to pollute. Perhaps his nickname should be ‘Pierre the Polluter’?
Cathy Orlando
Sudbury
(Curious how higher taxes would have done anything about the hurricanes?)
SHORT-SIGHTED ‘SOLUTIONS’
Re “Conservatives’ attempt to cancel carbon tax hikes fails in House of Commons” (Catherine Levesque, Sept. 28): I worry that if Poilievre were any more short-sighted, some might mistake him for blind. Sure, the cost of living is hurting Canadians right now, but the carbon tax’s portion of this responsibility is debatable considering its rebates, and the (not-so-far-away) impacts of climate change are set to cost us far more than these preventative measures ever could. Stop trying to ‘save us’ from the things which are saving us and find real issues to debate in the Commons.
Mark Taylor
Calgary
(You don’t honestly believe the tax dollars collected from the carbon tax are actually going to reduce the impacts of climate change?)
WHAT DO YOU SAY
Re “Our parole system devalues public safety” (Editorial, Sept. 16): I have been saying this for years. No innocent murder victim is ever in the wrong place at the wrong time, the murderer is. It’s about time this stupid saying was called out for its appalling victim blaming. Thank you.
L. McDonald
Kitchener
(It’s also about time the system punished criminals to give victims some justice)
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
It’s high time that dangerous criminals were dealt with properly. Let the punishment fit the crime, I say. Forget this rehabilitation nonsense. It just doesn’t work in most cases. The punishment should be so brutal that it is a deterrent. This soft on crime nonsense just tell criminals that they can get away with it. First offence for a gun crime? Fifteen years hard labour combined with solitary confinement. Stop thinking criminals have rights. They don’t. They lost them when they committed the crime. Do a survey on this and you’ll find that most people will agree with me.
Jeremy Thornton
Scarborough
(The system doesn’t need to be cruel, it needs to be just)
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