YOU SAID IT: Bursting their bubble

BURSTING THEIR BUBBLE

Re: Hospital workers rally against Ottawa’s proposed ‘bubble zone bylaw’, online, Sept. 9

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You can’t have it both ways.

The idea of making areas around hospitals a safe bubble zone was to ensure the safety of all visitors as well as allowing health professionals unobstructed access to their place of work.

Seemed pretty reasonable to me, but then again I am not a union leader who needs to make a statement to the base for fear of being irrelevant.

Why does every union leader have to scream like they are having a leg amputated with no anesthetic?

While they feel the need to rile their members, their message is lost on most who can stand to even listen to them.

WAYNE BOYCE
CARLETON PLACE

EXACTLY WHO ARE THE BELIEVERS?

Re: Canadians back Carney’s deficit and defence plans, poll shows, online, Sept. 10

In today’s news, a slight majority of Canadians believe Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to run deeper deficits will grow the economy.

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Who believes this? It’s never worked in the past, so let’s do it again?

Wow, shaking my head.

TIM BAKOS
MISSISSIPPI MILLS

DO NOT BLAME WORKERS

U.S. President Ronald Reagan used to say, “There you go again.” It seems like here some are doing the same again. First, international students got the blame for the housing crisis and jobs, and now foreign workers are getting the blame.

Just imagine the foreign workers picking apples in hot and steaming weather? These jobs are not being taken away from anybody — these jobs are available because no one else is doing them, whatever the reasons.

Just stop blaming them, please. They help and work.

ANANT NAGPUR
OTTAWA

BAILOUTS FOR EVERYONE

Re: Joly expects aluminum sector to receive ’hundreds of millions’ in tariff relief, Sept. 8

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Here we go again. Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts. When the hell will corporate welfare ever end? The market changes. Bailouts. Farmers do not get enough rain. Bailouts. Price of canola drops. Bailouts. Cannot sell all the copper, steel or aluminum we produce? Bailouts.

Guess who will get the most bailouts? You guessed Ontario and Quebec? Right again.

Why adjust to new business realities? Taxpayer bailouts for socialist Canada.

ABRAM WIEBE
CHAMPION, ALTA.

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