Doug Ford makes a big splash by pouring out a bottle of Crown Royal to show his displeasure at the company closing its Amherstburg, Ont., bottling plant. He suggests that removing Crown Royal from LCBO shelves may come next. Read MoreTuesday, Sept. 9: Here are today’s Ottawa Sun letters to the editor.
Tuesday, Sept. 9: Here are today’s Ottawa Sun letters to the editor.
GRANDSTANDING FORD A BIT HASTY
Doug Ford makes a big splash by pouring out a bottle of Crown Royal to show his displeasure at the company closing its Amherstburg, Ont., bottling plant. He suggests that removing Crown Royal from LCBO shelves may come next.
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Forgotten in all this phoney rhetoric is that fact that Crown Royal is distilled in Canada. There are jobs in Manitoba and Quebec in the distilling and bottling processes. The company has administrative offices in Ontario.
It would seem that in his haste to grandstand over Amherstburg jobs, Ford has abandoned his Team Canada membership.
GRANT WILKINSON
OTTAWA
FORD MAKES FOOL OF HIMSELF
Doug Ford made a real fool of himself, attempting to defend Canadian jobs with his little farce of pouring out Crown Royal whisky at a news conference. He was trying to point out the loss of Canadian jobs at a Canadian bottling plant, in the corporate move of its owners to move the plant to the U.S.
Then he suggested taking a Canadian product, Crown Royal, off the shelves, and boycotting the company, putting two or three times as many Canadians on the unemployment line.
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Absolutely brilliant, Doug! Whose side are you on?
GEORGE WALLACE
ORLÉANS
POLICE NEED TO DO THEIR PART
On Tuesday, Sept. 2 around 11 p.m. there was considerable police and ambulance activity on Longfields Drive at Via Campanale. In fact, Longfields was completely blocked with police tape, necessitating circuitous detours.
On Wednesday morning, before 9 a.m., one walking past could see at least two piles of abandoned police tape littering the ground.
On occasion, in a different context, police have been referred to as pigs. In this case, the term is entirely appropriate.
If they can take the time to string the tape up when needed, surely they can take the time to pick it up and dispose of it properly once it’s taken down. They must do their part to help keep the city clean, particularly as city employees.
MIKE ALAIN
OTTAWA
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