Letter to the editor: Carbon hypocrisy from government

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Re: Senate’s anti-fossil fuel advocate flies over 100,000 km to climate conferences, online, July 11

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spent more than $100 billion fighting climate change while claiming it is the biggest threat faced. Yet, among G7 leaders, Trudeau has flown most, a mind-boggling 783,580 kilometres (according to an analysis of air travel released in 2023).

Now we have this Liberal appointee Sen. Rosa Galvez, supposedly the anti-fossil fuel guru, flying more than 100,000 km to climate conferences in one year? The Trudeau government spent $3 million to fly 182 to the COP 28 climate change conference in Dubai. This type of carbon-spewing hypocrisy is frightening.

Yet Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault continue brow-beating average Canadians to abandon reliable gas-fired vehicles for more costly and less efficient EVs so it can meet its zero carbon emission goal by 2035. Trudeau and his cronies better start leading by example rather than playing by a different set of rules when it comes to fighting climate change.

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LARRY COMEAU
OTTAWA

COUNTING ON U.S. TO SAVE US

With the hundreds of billions Justin Trudeau has thrown away on all his pet projects around the world, other than right here in Canada, we could probably have met the two per cent of GDP on military spending that NATO demands. However, Trudeau is just counting on the U.S.A. to come to our defence if any threat comes to Canada as the U.S. would never allow another country to take over Canada.

Trudeau will have turned Canada into a freeloader of the U.S. if a war should ever break out. The next election can’t come soon enough to get Trudeau gone once and for all.

RENE KLABOUCH
KEMPTVILLE

NO TO HOME TAX

I understand that the Canadian government is considering levying more taxes when someone sells their home. Already, if I sell my home in Toronto, I pay the municipality and the province a “transfer tax” … and you want to make it worse. If I sell my home, I still have to buy another home … so these taxes shrink my ability to buy a new home. Taking more money from people who sold their homes will not help more Canadians buy homes. It makes no sense. Homes have to become cheaper. Prices for homes have to stay in line with incomes. And, while you’re at it, immigration numbers have to stay in line with homes built.

HEATHER JEWELL

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