YOU SAID IT: Another cowardly politician

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Re: EDITORIAL: Toronto’s mayor fails a test of leadership, online, May 14

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow decided not to attend the flag-raising ceremony at Toronto city hall marking the 76th anniversary of the founding of Israel because she found it “divisive.”

This is just yet another example of a cowardly politician ceding to the vocal minority. One would hope that Toronto voters will remember Chow’s stance at the next election.

MIKE SHURTLIFF
KANATA

HILDA FOR PM

Re: Canada is my country, letter, online, May 14

After reading this letter, all I can say is “Hilda Wynne for prime minister.” If our spineless politicians and university administrators had half the guts that Hilda does, we would be a less divided country.

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JUDY WARREN
OTTAWA

JUST DON’T GET IT

As this poor excuse for a government looks to find more ways to tax people in order to satisfy its insatiable appetite for spending, all in the name of garnering votes, it is apparent that it fails to see that people have wised up to this ploy.

We are one of the highest-taxed nations in the world, and it has backed us into a corner with very little wiggle room. All those who run household finances understand that money going out must match money coming in.

As basic as that is, Justin Trudeau and his crew don’t get it.

WAYNE BOYCE
CARLETON PLACE

NOT ALL SAINTS

Re: Quit kicking public servants, letter, online, May 17

I have to rebut the letter that seems to make government workers out to be some kind of saints. I have walked in their shoes and did take great pride in my work. However, in the last few years before I retired, I would observe most newbies come in with an absolute sense of entitlement and poor work ethic.

Maybe government workers don’t want to go back to the office so they don’t have to put up with all the demoralizing office politics. I do feel bad about the LRT and decline in the downtown area.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE
ORLÉANS

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