Letter to the editor: Trudeau blinded by his power obsession

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BLINDED BY HIS POWER OBSESSION

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Only after eight long, costly years, and now with his poll numbers plummeting, is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally panicking about a severe housing problem that his mass immigration policies have created.

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There was simply no way Trudeau could add 500,000 immigrants annually, hundreds of thousands refugees and illegal border jumpers, plus 642,000 foreign students, without overwhelming housing, health care and the welfare social safety net.

Trudeau views mass immigration as the way to perpetual power. There is no way for Trudeau to now catch up to the affordable housing urgently needed.

Unlike Trudeau, England, which is also having housing and health-care crises, has severely restricted immigration, which was exacerbating those crises.

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LARRY COMEAU
OTTAWA

WHAT ABOUT US?

Instead of coming up with plans to accommodate the unending influx of immigrants, how about some help for the Canadian people who have homes and are suffering big-time with the constant increases in mortgage rates?

We worked hard to buy our homes, but it’s getting harder to try to keep them with no relief in sight with the high interest rates.

DARLENE NEWMAN
OTTAWA

PAYING MORE, RECEIVING LESS

I just received notice that I needed to renew my health card and driver’s licence. A new photo is required. I made the five-minute drive to the local licensing centre that I’ve used for 30 years, but it was closed.

Like most essential government services lacking in our small town, another has been closed. I will need to travel a minimum of 50 kilometres to renew these essential documents.

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What does anyone who can’t afford to drive (right now) to do?

MIKE DEFALCO
ARNPRIOR

YOU’RE PICKING ON THE PM

I have been supporting the Ottawa Sun for too many years to mention. I am, however, finding it more and more difficult to do so. I am not fan of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but constant putdowns (some really mean-spirited) without any effort to be the least bit objective are signs of lazy journalism.

It’s bad enough to have an American journalist like Victor Davis Hanson muddy your pages, but shouldn’t we expect more from your regular scribes? Is that too much to ask?

ALLEN BRADY
GATINEAU

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