YOU SAID IT: What then, Canada?

WHAT THEN, CANADA?

According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, our leaders are driving the country into the ground. This is very serious.

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What will the future hold for our cherished base social programs (which any boomer can attest are already badly degraded), and how will our children function in a collapsed economy? How will the elderly survive with the cost of living ballooning? What will happen to our so-called “free” health-care system (which all the gum-flapping politicians acknowledge is a mess, yet not one thing is being done about it)?

We have energy riches that could help, but because of ideology we are not allowed to take advantage of the resources we have in hand.

How is it that people are worried about a bunch of birds out west, but not about this?

We are already one of the most taxed countries in the world. What will they do to continue underwriting their extravagant ambitions … find new ways to tax us? Bring in more people, worsening our housing and health crises?

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Things are already unaffordable as it is. Oh, sure, they claim to have a plan for our economy. But they’ll sacrifice every extant Canadian to get there, if they get there at all. Then what will it all have been for? Hard to have confidence in a government with no transparency and a poor track record on ethics.

We are in very dire straits, indeed!

BURTON BLAIS
ADDISON, ONT.

PBO DOESN’T PULL PUNCHES

Kudos to our new interim Parliamentary Budget Officer, Jason Jacques, for not pulling any punches as he flat out states that the spending path we are on is unsustainable.

This guy seems to have a very real grasp on the consequences of our government’s spending habits and is sounding the alarm. I am sure Mark Carney did not like his tone as Jacques pointed the finger directly at him about how imperative it was to change that going forward.

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Not since Stephen Harper have we had a balanced budget, and the line item on the current balance sheet that says “interest on debt” is staggering.

WAYNE BOYCE
CARLETON PLACE

CELEBRITY SICKNESS

Sarah McLachlan seems to imply that she should be ashamed or is some kind of victim for being a “white woman of privilege.” Please. I’m sick of these so-called Canadian celebrities (Mike Myers is another one).

Her big concern now is Jimmy Kimmel’s freedom of speech. Was she there to defend Don Cherry’s cancellation for no reason? I wonder if she is at all concerned about the Liberals’ plans to stifle Canadians’ free speech? I highly doubt it.

GISELE LAVICTORIE
ORLÉANS

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