Letter to the editor: Congrats to soccer team

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All the odds were against them at the Olympic Games. A coaching staff that embarrassed the team and embarrassed Canadians. A team that worked hard to be champions. The points taken away would be difficult to overcome, but yet, with pride, the women’s soccer team played for themselves, knowing they are champions no matter what. They knew that Canadians were behind them. That Canadians knew they were champions and would push on.

The women’s soccer team played hard and focused on their goal that to win they would keep going.
And they did it! Yes, they did it!

Congratulations to the Canadian women’s soccer team.

(Editor’s note: After managing to get out of group play despite a six-point penalty due to the drone spying scandal, the team lost to Germany on penalty kicks in the quarter-finals.)

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BRUCE MAY

DOESN’T DESERVE OUR SYMPATHY

Re: LILLEY: Trudeau deserves to spend time with his kids without being accosted, online, July 30

Did Sun columnist Brian Lilley switch to decaf? I could not believe that Lilley suggested the worst PM since Confederation might deserve our sympathy. Simply because, while vacationing on a B.C. beach, he was asked by an independent journalist to answer a couple of straight-up questions?

Nero chose to fiddle while Rome burned. Our Prince Justin opted for a surfboard instead.

If there were an Olympic event for wasting taxpayer dollars, we would have four gold medals since 2015!

EDDY DIDGAN

ROCKLAND

HOW ENCOURAGING

Justin Trudeau’s latest flowery advice to young people is that there is hope of owning a home. They will now have access to a 30-year amortization period. How encouraging. Now on a $600,000 property, a townhouse these days, they can save for the $100,000 down payment until they’re 35-40 years old, then buy the property and pay the half-million-dollar mortgage for 30 years.

If they’re lucky, they’ll see the light at the end of the tunnel and be mortgage/debt free by the time they’re in their 70s.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE

ORLÉANS

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