Letters, Sept. 16, 2025: ‘We have the lowest minimum wage of all provinces and territories’​on September 16, 2025 at 11:00 am

Bailouts, bailouts …

Here we go again. Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts. Will corporate welfare ever end? The market changes. Bailouts. Farmers do not get enough rain. Bailouts. Price of canola drops. Bailouts. Can not sell all the copper, steel, or aluminum we produce? Bailouts. Guess who will get the most bailout? You guessed Ontario and Quebec? Right again. Why adjust to new business realities? Taxpayer bailouts for socialist Canada.

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Abram Wiebe

(Industries can’t adjust overnight, but your point is taken.)

Wage argument shocking

It is unusual to see a Liberal supporter being an advocate of paying temporary foreign workers a lower working wage than regular Canadian workers. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois’ Republican justification of increased costs being passed onto consumers is quite shocking. There is nothing wrong with jobs being able to provide a worker with the money to feed, clothe and shelter themselves. Perhaps, if the TFW jobs paid a decent wage, Canadians could work at them, eliminating the need for TFW.

Owen Neale

(Workers do deserve fair wages, but businesses also need to function.)

Teachers deserve better

So much is spoken about money for teachers and not enough credence to working conditions, like the number of teachers assaulted by students. The placement of a special needs student in a classroom of 30 other students with no aid for the special needs student. Please take a serious look at working conditions. Money is nice but not the be all.

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Robert J Gray

(We agree.)

The Alberta advantage?

We have the lowest minimum wage of all provinces and territories. We have the second highest unemployment rate (Newfoundland and Labrador is higher). We have the lowest funding per student of all major cities in Canada. We are the only province clawing back the federal disability benefit from AISH (funding for the severely handicapped). We are the only province charging $100 for the COVID vaccine. And only in Alberta, permission must be granted for your child to opt into sex ed classes. And to top it off, on International Literacy Day, Sept. 8, the most important concern of our province is a preoccupation with books that may be depicting sexual content. After international embarrassment, clarification that sexual content is OK but no visuals are allowed.

Evelyn Tait

(Many would disagree that all of these are issues, but we do have problems.)

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