YOU SAID IT: But will prices drop?

BUT WILL PRICES DROP?

Re: Major win for shoppers; Trump’s food tariff reversal quietly great for Canada, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois column, Nov. 16

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It sounds great that Donald Trump has reversed food tariffs and the above article says it will benefit grocery chains in Canada, but will these grocery chains drop prices for we minions?

Not likely. Once they raise prices, they rarely, if ever, lower prices for consumers. Instead, they just rake in more revenue for their bottom line and we minions will just keep getting raked over the coals and keep paying the now higher prices.

RENE KLABOUCH
KEMPTVILLE

REAL STORY ON HOME SALES

Re: The federal budget’s housing math doesn’t add up, column, Nov. 15

I recently read the above article written by Dave Wilkes, president and CEO of the Building Industry and Land Development Association.

He began: Page 44 in the budget states “home sales have risen in five of the past six months.”

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He states that this does not reflect the reality unfolding in major urban centres. The latest numbers tell a very different story and show a “severe downward trend,” he wrote, adding, “Year-to-date new home sales have declined sharply across Canada’s largest municipalities compared to the 10-year average.”

He then proceeded to present the correct data, presented by third-party tracking agencies.

Question: Why was this column buried on Page 15 of the Saturday Sun? This is important information for the general public to know. It exposes the attempted distortion of the true facts by the Carney government in order to mask what’s really happening.

It seems to be in the DNA of Liberals to “misrepresent” the truth.

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The difference between Carney and Trudeau? Indistinguishable.

BETTY-ANNE TREMBLAY
OTTAWA

GENERATIONAL DEBT

To say I am disappointed the federal budget passed is a gross understatement. Those who voted for it are now on record as being the most out of touch and anti-Canadian MPs we’ve had.

Mark Carney’s claim about the budget being a “generational investment” is another phrase for generational debt. We will never be able to climb out of the pit the Liberals, past and present, have dug us into.

SANDY JOHNSTON
GREELY

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