YOU SAID IT: Never-ending persecution

NEVER-ENDING PERSECUTION

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Re: Convoy case rolls on; Lawsuit against truckers to proceed in Ottawa: Judge, June 25

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The persecution of the truckers’ convoy never ends.

Some Ottawa residents who seem to have no problem embracing an authoritarian government have no problem vilifying those who dare to stand up to it. So they had to endure some inconvenience. Boo hoo. Put on some ear plugs. The price of freedom sometimes entails inconvenience.

If three weeks of inconvenience is suable, then let’s sue over the inconvenience of more than a year and a half of public praying blocking roads, accompanied by loudspeaker prayers.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE

ORLÉANS

POLITICALLY PERSECUTING PROTESTERS

Re: Convoy case rolls on; Lawsuit against truckers to proceed in Ottawa: Judge, June 25

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Wow. The Liberal-controlled justice system releases rapists and murderers back on to our streets, but continues to politically persecute protesters.

Any Canadian who thinks we still live in a democracy is clearly not paying attention to the ongoing erosion of our rights and freedoms. For Justice Benjamin Glustein to claim that there isn’t any evidence to support a change of venue is ridiculous.

This case is nothing more than an attempt to stifle any future protests against the government.

It’s funny. Palestinian protesters can block our streets day after day, utter death threats and be violent, and little or nothing is done. Are they going to be arrested and persecuted ad nauseam? Nope.

This is political and anti-Canadian, plain and simple.

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SANDY JOHNSTON

GREELY

CURBING POLLUTION

Re: GOLDSTEIN: Remember Carney’s new carbon taxes? They’re still coming, online, June 25

I’m being smothered by wildfire smoke, not carbon taxes. If opinion columnists spent half the time calculating the cost of climate damages as they did painstakingly following the thin thread of cost from climate legislation to taxpayers, we’d never hear another word against carbon pricing again.

Half our best summer days are gone now to smoke, heat or flood. How many more do we need to lose before we realize that doing our part to curb pollution is the bare minimum required to ensure our economies leave a life worth living?

MARK TAYLOR

CALGARY

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