YOU SAID IT: Don’t change election day

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DON’T CHANGE ELECTION DAY

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Re: The pension coalition; Election date change means Trudeau will be staying, Brian Lilley column, March 23

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(Editor’s note: A proposed Elections Act change would move Canada’s next fixed election date from Oct. 20, 2025 to one week later. MPs are eligible for a pension after six years of service. Eighty MPs were first elected in the Oct. 21, 2019 general election. The government pointed out that Oct. 20, 2025 is the first day of the Hindu festival of light.)

There is absolutely no reason to change election day law no matter whose holiday celebration is on the same day. This has nothing to do with accommodating a certain population’s religious celebrations and everything to do with a way to screw taxpayers once again.

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Most of us have to work decades to earn a pension, if we get one at all other than CPP. Eighty MPs are eligible to benefit from this change if it goes ahead, which will increase the burden on Canadians.

Let’s face it, if you’re doing a good job and voters are happy with your representation, then you will continue to get re-elected. Of course, that doesn’t always work seeing as we have a PM who is not doing a good job and does not represent Canadians.

We continue to be hammered by this government and there’s no end in sight. Leave the election day where it is.

SANDY JOHNSTON
GREELY

LET NURSE PRACTITIONERS BILL

Re: Nurses lobby for cash; Kingston group disappointed province did not approve funding for proposed clinic, March 26

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I’m curious regarding what the holdup is in Ontario for nurse practitioners being able to bill OHIP. This seems like an obvious solution to rectify the problem of so many Ontario residents without a family doctor.

I really hope it’s coming soon, because the lack of family doctor issue has been ongoing for years with no signs of things improving.

MIKE SHURTLIFF
KANATA

MEMORIES OF ANOTHER COLLAPSE

Watching the news of the Baltimore bridge collapse brought back the memory of the May 9, 1980 Sunshine Sky Bridge collapse in Florida. Again, it was hit by a freighter. Those days there were no cellphones the way we have now and my close friend was driving to work from St. Petersburg, and until I saw her in person at work in downtown Tampa I was restless.

You wonder how this could happen, but it did and I hope nothing like that happens in future.

ANANT NAGPUR
OTTAWA

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