Letter to the editor: Don’t kill tulip fest funding

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Re: DEACHMAN: Why is the city ending funding to the Tulip Festival? Online, April 25

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There is one thing that makes me happy after a long day of work in May: the Tulip Festival.

It’s world-famous and my relatives from all over come to have their pictures taken at the festival. It’s a reunion, a celebration of beautiful things to come along.

Defunding of the festival by the city is very discouraging for the working class, whose joy it is to watch tulips in May. I immigrated here 23 years ago, I work two to three jobs at a time, and the beauty of the tulips is my reward in May. My kids have enjoyed them. So does the rest of my family.

I hope the city reconsiders.

ANGELINA ‘GARDENER’ SINGSON

BLOOD BOILING

It makes my blood boil every time I hear Justin Trudeau and just about every media source in this country say the outcome of the federal election was unaffected by China’s influence.

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It’s kind of like your neighbour shooting a bullet at you and the police telling you, “Nothing to worry about, he doesn’t appear to be a very good shot.”

Nothing could be further from the truth, and the fact we wouldn’t have even known about it, except for the courage of an unidentified whistleblower who risked their own livelihood in order to let Canadians know what was going on, is even more appalling.

WAYNE BOYCE
CARLETON PLACE

NOW THAT’S A PLAN

On May 1, more than 1.7 million senior citizens qualified for Justin Trudeau’s new national dental plan, but — oh, oh — very few dentists have signed on to this new plan.

Welcome to Trudeau’s dental plan of smoke and mirrors!

Just another “X” in the failure box for the legacy hunter.

JIM MCEWEN
BOWMANVILLE, ONT.

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