YOU SAID IT: Bags per person

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BAGS PER PERSON

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Re: Trash talk; Don’t fall afoul of Ottawa’s new garbage limits, Sept. 27

Limiting garbage bags per household seems unfair. The house doesn’t create garbage, people do. Why does a single person get the same garbage bag allotment as a family of six or more?

If you are going to limit the number of garbage bags a property can put out, it should be based on the number of occupants, such as X bags per person per week, and issue the appropriate number of ties that people can use as they need them. This would also provide flexibility with timing since most people produce more garbage around Christmas or spring cleaning.

Having a system based on the number of occupants, and which is also time flexible, would be much fairer for everybody.

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STEEN I. PETERSEN

NANAIMO, B.C.

GARBAGE BAG DROPOFF?

Re: Garbage problem piling up, letter to the editor, Oct. 5

How long before citizens start piling up their garbage on the steps of city hall?

Asking for a friend.

TIM BAKOS

MISSISSIPPI MILLS

PILED HIGH, INDEED

Re: Garbage problem piling up, letter to the editor, Oct. 5

It certainly is.

Take that festering mess on Parliament Hill, for example. Please.

Look at Ottawa council’s fiscal follies of special causes over core essentials.

Our Least Reliable Transit (LRT) is a piece of junk.

Curbside garbage bags are the least of our problems.

DYAN CROSS

OTTAWA

CORPORATE GREED

Do you know what is pathetic? It’s that TSN was blacking out National Hockey League exhibition games. Talk about squeezing out every last penny — oops, don’t have them any more — I mean every last nickel.

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What’s next, are you going to have to pay to watch practice? Really? Exhibition games? Sad, very sad.

ANDY ABBOTT

HAWKESBURY

LIBERALS’ MINIVAN PARTY

It appears that Justin Trudeau is taking advantage of Kathleen Wynne’s blueprint on how to lead your political party into electoral oblivion. Perhaps Wynne can be of further assistance by recommending to Trudeau the model of minivan he can get after the next election to shuttle his remaining caucus around to its next retreat.

KEVIN RYAN

MISSISSAUGA, ONT.

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