Letter to the editor: Not a peep from Jim Watson

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NOT A PEEP FROM JIMMY

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Yes, he has been out of office for over a year, but notice there has not been a peep from our former mayor, Photo-op Jimmy Watson?

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The great Thomas Sowell took pains to emphasize in his stellar book Intellectuals and Society that progressives were always full of grandiose ideas and plans that they would inflict on the masses, and if a project failed it was the people who suffered while the progressive moved on.

This has been the case with the not-so-great “Streetcar to Nowhere” debacle that has cost billions. It is way over budget and incredibly behind schedules. Heavens, the whole system was shut down for weeks because of mechanical failures; there have been so many breakdowns that you could not even count them.

The city is in a pickle; it can’t scrap this disaster, but the public just will not buy into it anymore, and can you blame them?

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The only possible way that this can be saved is if the whole transit system is placed into private ownership — that is if someone is crazy enough to take it over.

STEPHEN FLANAGAN
OTTAWA

MORE HELP FOR UKRAINE?

Re: A year ago, Canada promised to deliver a $400M air defence system to Ukraine. It still hasn’t arrived. Online, Jan. 2

I have a question regarding Ukraine. Canada has already supplied help to that country, more than once.

It has been reported that we have taken in refugees from Ukraine. From what we have been able to understand, Ukraine is a corrupt nation.

Why should we be asked to provide more help? Should it not be incumbent on other Eastern European countries to provide help? We need a holiday from helping Ukraine.

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CAROL VEINOTTE
BEDFORD, N.S.

EVERYONE SAY ‘THANK YOU’

Re: ‘EMBARRASSING’: Hamas thanks Liberal government for ceasefire support, online, Dec. 20

And, with 2023 in the rearview mirror, who else owes the Justin Trudeau Liberals a big “thank you”?

• cash-strapped taxpayers for crashing our economy
• bankrupt businesses for useless lockdowns and lockouts;
• food banks for the opportunity to be a growth industry;
• CERB cheaters for a free pass on returning illegal payments;
• air travellers for ArriveNOT app and price gouging;
• Maritime voters who got a carbon tax warm stay-cation;
• the homeless for the right to live in the streets;
• drivers of gas vehicles and EVs for high taxes and scarce chargers;
• all MPs for the lack of any recall legislation;
• Jagmeet Singh for the best unelected job of his life;
• Tiff (the Grinch) Macklem for the right to destroy lives;
• Pierre Poilievre for gifting him an endless supply of useful material.

Now we’re into 2024, with more of the same on the way thanks to all you Liberal Party voters and the bootlicking (I’m being nice) NDPers.

DYAN CROSS
OTTAWA

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